Experience

International protection work in refugee law, centred on protection casework: assessing cases, reviewing evidence, preparing interviews, and addressing detention and access-to-asylum issues, durable solutions and exclusion under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention.

Much of the work began with the existing record. Protection files are often extensive and fragmented, and the task was to work through them independently: reconstructing chronology and procedural history, identifying where the evidence was incomplete, inconsistent or unverified, and keeping statements, official records, assessments, allegations and unauthenticated material distinct.

Those gaps then shaped focused interview frameworks, built around open chronology questions, targeted lines of inquiry and procedural safeguards, so that interviews addressed what the record could not answer. The analysis was set out in protection assessments and file-note style analysis prepared for handover and follow-up.

In exclusion matters, the analysis turned on individualized responsibility: what a person knew, intended and contributed, whether conduct was voluntary, how credibility and inconsistencies should be weighed, and what procedural safeguards were owed before protection could be denied.

The work also involved coordination and follow-up with protection colleagues and through the relevant referral and asylum processes. After an initial full-time period, it continued part-time and remotely from Canada.