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Introduction
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (“JCWI”) was established in 1967. Our mission is to promote justice, fairness and equality in immigration and asylum law and policy. We do this through:

Policy work and campaigning;
Legal advice and strategic casework;
Media work and information dissemination;
Providing legal training to practitioners and others; and
Publication of reference materials.

We have read the submissions to this review of the Public Law Project and the Administrative Law Bar Association and we full support and endorse the points made in those submissions. To avoid repetition, in our evidence we will focus on our experience of judicial review, which is grounded by the needs of our clients and the community we serve. The executive wields great power over those subject, or thought to be subject, to the immigration system. It makes decisions that alter the course of people’s lives, separate parents…