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Expert Witness & Country of Origin Evidence
Aspire Expert Witness Services provides independent expert witness and country-of-origin evidence for legal, immigration and asylum matters involving Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and MENA countries.
Service scope
What this service covers.
- Providing independent evidence for solicitors, barristers, courts and tribunals in immigration, asylum, appeals and other legal proceedings, structured around the instructions and legal questions in the matter.
- Evaluating human-rights conditions, including women’s rights, ethnic and religious minority rights, and LGBT issues.
- Analysing family law, including forced marriages, Islamic marriages, divorce, alimony and child custody.
- Examining domestic and gender-based violence, including sexual assault, honour killings and rape cases.
- Assessing internal relocation and risk on return for asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Assessing disputed nationality cases and conducting language assessments to help consider country of origin.
- Providing expert opinions on diaspora communities, refugee and asylum cases.
- Analysing socio-cultural norms and tribal dynamics, including Jirga decisions, informal justice, Taliban courts, Pashtunwali and blood feuds.
- Investigating fact-finding matters, including Taliban legal and judicial practices, and assessing prison conditions in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries.
- Assessing health facilities and services, including mental health and PTSD.
- Providing analysis on geopolitical trends, regional security, mass mobilisation and protest movements.
Reports are prepared independently and are scoped to the instructions, evidence and country issues in the matter. Aspire does not provide legal advice or legal representation.
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Aspire can review the broad country, subject and timing requirements before a service is scoped.
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