Name the Convention ground
Political opinion, religion, race, nationality, or particular social group — including imputed grounds and mixed claims. Refusals often mislabel the risk.
Persecution evidence for UK asylum and immigration tribunals
We match solicitors and Legal Aid practitioners with persecution expert witnesses who analyse Convention grounds, state protection, and relocation — the legal frame, not a country brochure.
Persecution Expert is a United Kingdom service. We connect immigration solicitors, barristers, and Legal Aid practitioners with persecution expert witnesses for First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal proceedings in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Our content addresses UK asylum law, Home Office decision-making, and Immigration Tribunal practice. We do not provide expert witness matching for courts, tribunals, or immigration systems outside the UK.
How persecution is proven
Country experts describe conditions. Persecution experts test whether the claimed harm meets the Refugee Convention framework Immigration Judges actually apply.
Test state protection
Whether the Home Office correctly assessed ability and willingness of the state to protect against state and non-state actors.
Stress internal relocation
Whether relocation is reasonable and safe in light of the claimant’s profile, not a generic national average.
Write for the tribunal
Independent analysis that meets Immigration Tribunal Practice Direction paragraph 10 and the Adam Pipe expert report guidance.
Persecution types
Thematic analysis that travels across countries.
Political Opinion PersecutionIndependent persecution expert reports on political opinion grounds for UK asylum appeals. Actual and imputed …Religious PersecutionPersecution expert reports on religious grounds for UK immigration tribunals. Conversion, apostasy, blasphemy …LGBTQ+ PersecutionLGBTQ+ persecution expert witness reports for UK asylum tribunals. HJ (Iran) [2010] standard, discretion argum…Gender-Based PersecutionGender-based persecution expert reports for UK asylum tribunals. Women as PSG, FGM, forced marriage, honour-ba…Racial & Ethnic PersecutionRacial and ethnic persecution expert reports for UK immigration tribunals. Refugee Convention race ground, eth…Particular Social GroupPSG persecution expert reports for UK asylum tribunals. Social perception test, protected characteristics, tra…Non-State Actor PersecutionNon-state actor persecution expert reports for UK asylum appeals. Criminal gangs, family, community violence, …State PersecutionState persecution expert reports for UK immigration tribunals. Military, police, intelligence targeting, judic…
Services
- Political Persecution AnalysisIndependent expert analysis of political opinion persecution claims, including actual and imputed opinion, diaspora activity risk, and RT (Zimbabwe) [2012] methodology for UK tribunals.
- Religious Persecution ReportsExpert reports on religious persecution grounds including conversion, apostasy, blasphemy accusations, and minority religion targeting under Article 9 of the Qualification Directive.
- LGBTQ+ Asylum Expert ReportsThematic LGBTQ+ persecution analysis applying the HJ (Iran) [2010] standard across all countries, including criminalisation, enforcement, and internal relocation assessment.
- Gender-Based Persecution AnalysisExpert reports on FGM, forced marriage, honour-based violence, domestic violence, and women as PSG claims under UNHCR gender persecution guidelines.
- PSG Identification and AnalysisParticular social group definition and social perception analysis for complex PSG claims including trafficking victims, clan membership, and class-based persecution.
- Non-State Actor Persecution ReportsAnalysis of persecution by criminal gangs, family, community groups, and terrorist organisations with state protection sufficiency assessment.
- State Protection AssessmentThree-part state protection analysis: existence, adequacy, and accessibility of protection mechanisms for the specific appellant profile and location.
- Internal Relocation AnalysisAssessment of whether internal relocation within the country of origin provides a viable and reasonable alternative to international protection.
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