Archives Detention Monitoring Template

06.02. The decision to detain or to continue to detain includes an individualised assessment of whether there are less coercive and intrusive ways of achieving a legitimate aim.

06. Alternatives to Detention,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

06.01. Interim release is legally possible and enforceable.

06. Alternatives to Detention,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.17. Staff and management understand and acknowledge the non-criminal status of immigration detainees.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.16. Staff and management are familiar with the detention processes and procedures and are able to provide necessary information to detainees as to their status and rights.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.15. Immigration detainees have access to timely and effective remedies for breaches of established standards in the decision-making process (such as release, compensation, reparations, and measures to prevent recurrence).

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.14. Detention is subject to strict time limits, and detainees are released if a prescribed maximum period of detention is reached.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.13. Detainees receive timely individualised written reasons for all subsequent reviews of detention, which assess the continuing necessity, reasonableness and proportionality of detention and take into account changes in circumstances and new information.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.12. Each detainee has ready access to a case liaison officer who is able to keep him/her well informed about progress on periodic review of detention and other detention-related appeal processes.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.11. Periodic review and appeal processes are prompt, meaningful, enforceable and independent.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures

05.10. Immigration detainees, their legal representatives, family members and other interested parties are able to access the courts to challenge the lawfulness and arbitrariness of the decision to detain or to continue to detain and detainees have the right to appear physically before the court.

05. Detention Procedures,A. Detention and Immigration Procedures