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IMPORTANT AND URGENT
Immigration
Advisory Service (IAS) archive - limited file retrieval service
Added: 15 March 2012
At a
hearing – 27 February 2012 - of the Joint Administrators’ application for
directions as to what to do with the files that were in the Immigration
Advisory Service (IAS) archive at the time when IAS went into
administration, the Chief Registrar, Mr Registrar Baister, ordered that a
retrieval period be opened, until 28 May 2012, during which former IAS
clients can request their files from the archive.
Please bring this information to the attention of any of your constituents
with whom you are in touch who are former IAS clients and with
community organisations and lawyers who may be in touch with such
constituents.
The
Order of Mr Registrar Baister, the Administrators’ notice and the
application form for retrieving a file can be found at:
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/resources.php/14268/clients-can-retrieve-immigration-advisory-service-archived-files-28-february-2012.
This resource is public.
ILPA
(Immigration Law Practitioners' Association) intervened in the proceedings
and report as follows:
“We
are enormously grateful to Sarah Robinson and Craig Montgomery of
Freshfields and their colleagues and to Georgina Peters of South Square
Chambers for the superb representation they provided pro bono which
enabled us to participate in this case. We were successful in our arguments
against the destruction of the files. We had argued for the files to be
retained for the full six years but in all the circumstances (in private law
cases the “there is no money” argument goes a long way we achieved much more
than we ever dared expect in managing to get the three month retrieval
period.”
If
you need more information on any aspect of this, do get in touch with Alison
Harvey at info@ilpa.org.uk.
Meanwhile, for
the most recent Update and most recent Information Sheets provided by
ILPA's Information Service,
see
http://www.ilpa.org.uk/pages/info-service.html.
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