Adjudication of asylum claims (refugee status determination / asylum procedures) / Persecution of family members

Heard at Kings Court, North Shields, on 13 November 2007. JA (Ethnic Palestinian - Iraq - Objective Evidence) Iraq v. Secretary of State for the Home Department CG [2005] UKIAT 00045 is no longer to be considered country guidance.

14 May 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Abduction - Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Palestinian - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Single heads of household - Statelessness - Statelessness | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the ECHR. It may be subject to editorial revision.

8 April 2008 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Deportation / Forcible return - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Right to family life | Countries: Uganda - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT No. HX/41661/2002).

3 April 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Disappeared persons - Kurd - Muslim - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Türkiye - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

22 June 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Hutus - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - State protection | Countries: Rwanda - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

12 June 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Country of origin information (COI) - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Tajik | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

13 March 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (CC/17533/00). The Court of Appeal held that the guidelines in Devaseelan v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] UKIAT 00702 were relevant to cases where the parties involved were not the same but there was a material overlap of evidence.

5 October 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Colombia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Derivative status - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Türkiye - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

24 January 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | 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 - Persecution of family members | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

29 August 2003 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Persecution of family members - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Sikh - Single heads of household | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland