� English Legal System; Civil and Criminal liability � Key concepts in immigration law; Evolution of UK immigration law; philosophy of citizenship and statelessness, the right of abode, acquiring British citizenship � Evolution of the European Union, European law and rights of free movement The machinery of immigration control, the entry clearance system, control at ports of entry and the power of immigration officers, control after entry � Visitors, students and other temporary categories of admission � Admission for employment, the work-permit system and other categories of admission for work, business admissions, persons of independent means � Admission of family members, spouses and fianc�(e)s, the "primary purpose" rule and its abolition, admission of children, admission of parents and grandparents and other relatives � Returning residents and other miscellaneous categories of admission

� Deportation, grounds of deportation; illegal entry and removal powers; criminal offences � Refugees and asylum, the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees; Protocol to the convention on refugees; Refugees and the immigration rules � The immigration appeal system and other remedies, rights of appeal and practice and procedure in appeals, the role of judicial review and MPs representations � The Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 and the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, European Convention of Human Rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights � The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 � Human Rights Act 1998 � Immigration rules and public funds