United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

Heard at Field House on 29th & 30th September 2010.

11 July 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Children's rights - Country of origin information (COI) - Domestic violence - Effective protection - Gender-based persecution - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Right to family life - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Social group discrimination - Social group persecution - State protection - Women-at-risk | Countries: Bangladesh - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia

Heard at Field House on 7 December 2009 and 30 November 2010.

24 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Sexual and reproductive rights - Social group persecution | Countries: Jamaica - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at: Field House on 4 April 2011.

19 May 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Country of origin information (COI) - EU Qualification Directive - Extended definition - Internal armed conflict - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Procession House on 15 and 16 December 2009, and at Field House on 22 and 23 February 2010. Closing submissions received on 10 June 2010.

11 April 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Deportation / Forcible return - International criminal law - International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions - Jurisdiction - Palestinian - Passports - Persecution based on nationality - Statelessness - Statelessness - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Palestine, State of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 18 to 25 October and 15 December 2010 and 14 January 2011. The determination replaces RN (Returnees) Zimbabwe CG [2008] UKAIT 00083. The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

10 March 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Children's rights - Complementary forms of protection - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Political parties - Political situation - Rejected asylum-seekers - Right to family life | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Zimbabwe

Heard at Field House on 18 November 2010.

9 February 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal armed conflict - Rejected asylum-seekers - Returnees - Security situation | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 27 July 2010.

7 February 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Ahwazi - Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 5 and 6 October 2010. The conclusions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in the country guidance case of SB (risk on return - illegal exit) Iran CG [2009] UKAIT 00053, on the risk of persecution for those who have exited Iran illegally, are followed and endorsed.

1 February 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion - Sur place persecution - Unlawful departure | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Bradford on 28 October 2010. The guidance given by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in JC (double jeopardy: Art 10 CL) China CG [2008] UKAIT 00036 confirmed.

25 January 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Criminal justice - Drug trafficking - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland