Case Law

8 December 2014 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Deportation / Forcible return - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Mental health | Countries: Nigeria - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

15 April 2014 | Judicial Body: Austria: Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) | Countries: Austria - Nigeria - Uganda

Application for judicial review of decision which denied Pre-Removal Risk Assessment. Application granted on basis that treatment of evidence was unreasonable.

15 June 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) | Countries: Canada - Nigeria

On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

6 April 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 6 November 2008, 7 January 2009 and on 13 January 2009. The decision was subsequently appealed before the Court of Appeal (England and Wales): PO (Nigeria) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 132.

23 November 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Prostitution / Commercial sex work - Right to family life - Social group persecution - State protection - Trafficking in persons - Women-at-risk | Countries: Nigeria - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for judicial review.

14 October 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Fresh / New claim - HIV and AIDS - Non-state agents of persecution - Public health - Social group persecution | Countries: Ireland - Nigeria

Petition for Judicial review of a decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department dated 7 August 2008 to refuse to treat the petitioner's representations based on further information as a fresh claim for asylum.

29 May 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to family life - SGBV | Countries: Nigeria - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for an order of certiorari.

30 April 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Ireland - Nigeria

Application for leave to apply for judicial review.

3 April 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - SGBV | Countries: Ireland - Nigeria

Application for an order of certiorari quashing the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal.

24 February 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Abduction - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Ireland - Nigeria