Case Law

7 January 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Prosecution vs persecution - State protection - Unaccompanied / Separated children - Unlawful departure | Countries: Canada - China

7 January 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Prosecution vs persecution - State protection - Unaccompanied / Separated children - Unlawful departure | Countries: Canada - China

3 September 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Falun Gong - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rejected asylum-seekers - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

13 August 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Contemporary forms of slavery - Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

29 July 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Involuntary repatriation | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

25 July 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Prison or detention conditions - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

10 May 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Prison or detention conditions - Unlawful departure | Countries: China - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

See also: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2004] FC 179 (3 February 2004), and: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2005] FCA 125 (11 April 2005). Application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed on 9 May 2005.

6 May 2002 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Criminal justice - Death penalty - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Grounds for persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution - Right to justice - Serious non-political crime - Social group persecution | Countries: Canada - China

22 March 2001 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Domestic violence - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-state agents of persecution - Smuggling of persons - Social group persecution - State protection - Trafficking in persons - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - China

19 October 2000 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment | Countries: China - New Zealand