Case Law

25 June 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Combatants / Former combatants - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Pre-trial detention - Prison or detention conditions - Terrorism | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for judicial review.

31 March 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement - Refoulement - Safe third country - Single procedure - Suspensive effect | Countries: Afghanistan

10 January 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Immigration Detention - Non-refoulement - Refoulement - Safe third country - Single procedure | Countries: Afghanistan

Application for judicial review of the Secretary of State's decision to order removal to Greece, and application for a declaration that the provisions of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 Schedule 3 para 3 were incompatible with Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court of Appeal allowed the Secretary of State’s subsequent appeal: Secretary of State for the Home Department v. JN [2008] EWCA Civ 464.

2 July 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement - Safe third country | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the Secretary of State's decision that it was inappropriate to grant the claimants Discretionary Leave to enter the United Kingdom, and that they should remain there on temporary admission.

10 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Hijacking - Temporary admission | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland