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Catriona Jarvis is a solicitor by training who has an LLM in International Legal Studies, Refugee and Human Rights Law and an MA in Creative Writing. She is also a qualified teacher and holds a Certificate de Langue Française Degree Superieur from the Sorbonne, Paris. She now has 18 years judicial experience. For the last seven years Catriona has been a Senior Immigration Judge at what is now the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. She has been deeply involved in judicial training over the years both as a former Training Judge at the Tribunal and as a Member of the Judicial Training Committee of the Tribunal.

Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He is Director of the LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law since 2002. He is author of ‘Current Issues in the Application of the Exclusion Clauses’ in Feller, Türk and Nicholson, Refugee Protection in International Law (2003), part of UNHCR’s Global Consultations on the 50th Anniversary of the 1951 Convention. He is currently drafting a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on a possible Protocol to the ECHR dealing with minority rights.

Dr David James Cantor ( BA Hons (Cantab.), MSc Dist. (London, SOAS), PhD (Essex) is a lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He conducts research on the practical protection of refugees and also carried out in-depth fieldwork on displacement and armed conflict in Colombia. David is the director of a UNHCR seminar series on 'International Refugee Law'.