Case Law

22 June 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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 | 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 | 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

This determination was superseded by GG (Political Oppositionists) Ivory Coast v. Secretary of State for the Home Department CG [2007] UKAIT 00086, on 23 October 2007.

29 July 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Agents of persecution - Cessation clauses - Country of origin information (COI) - Coup d'état - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Côte d'Ivoire - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.

25 January 2000 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Tamil | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland