Improved Access to Legal Advice in Detention
Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix
Policy effect
Amendments to the immigration and asylum category specification allowing 30 minutes of initial advice to be available to immigration detainees held in prisons without reference to means or merits.
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The changes will allow 30 minutes of initial advice to be available to immigration detainees held in prisons without reference to means or merits. … Contract amendments will apply from 1 November 2021.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite extraction with independent Gemini 3.8 Flash verification
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