Use of Language Variety at the Hearing: Davidhi v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] UKIAT 02250
by Katia Bianchini
Question(s) at stake
Whether the adjudicator erred in law when he allowed the hearing to continue in the presence of a Northern Albanian interpreter rather than a Southern Albanian interpreter.
Outcome of the ruling
The adjudicator did not err in law when he allowed the hearing to continue in the presence of a Northern Albanian interpreter rather than a Southern Albanian interpreter.
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Official citation
Davidhi v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] UKIAT 02250
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Keywords:
Asylum seeker Asylum procedures Refusal of asylum
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Katia Bianchini (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
Katia Bianchini is a Research Fellow of the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. She holds a law degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), an LL.M. in Comparative Laws from the University of San Diego (California, USA), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of York (UK). Her doctoral thesis provided an empirical and legal analysis of how the 1954 UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is implemented in ten EU states. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Before engaging in research, she practised immigration and refugee law for ten years in the UK and the USA.
Bianchini has published in the field of refugee law, statelessness, and the rule of law in the context of sea migration. Her current research builds on her expertise in human rights and Italian law and looks at the treatment of deceased sea migrants in the South of Italy.