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  "title": "The Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1996",
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  "long_title": "These Rules provide the procedure to be followed in deciding appeals to special adjudicators arising from claims for asylum, appeals from special adjudicators to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal and applications for leave to appeal from decisions of that Tribunal. They replace the Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1993, and give effect to the provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. Other changes are designed to promote the just, timely and effective conduct of proceedings by:specifying the matters to be included in a written determination (rule 2(3));specifying conditions for the grant of adjournments (rules 10, 18));providing that the Tribunal should decide appeals itself unless there are special grounds for remitting them to special adjudicators (rule 17(2));giving special adjudicators and the Tribunal power to make directions governing the future conduct of an appeal (rule 23).",
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