Case Law

13 March 2017 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

9 December 2015 | Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal | Topic(s): Abduction - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: Australia - Sri Lanka

3 July 2013 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Exclusion clauses - Human rights activists - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation - Prison or detention conditions - Tamil | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Remanded to determine whether respondent could avoid future persecution by relocating to another part of the country and whether, under all the circumstances, it would be reasonable to expect him to do so.

4 October 2012 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Countries: Sri Lanka - United States of America

30 March 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Abduction - Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Effective protection - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - State protection - Tamil | Countries: New Zealand - Sri Lanka

Heard at Procession House on 27 & 28 October 2009. The risk categories identified in LP (LTTE area - Tamils - Colombo - Risk?) Sri Lanka CG [2007] UKAIT 00076 and approved by the European Court of Human Rights in NA v. United Kingdom, App. no. 25904/07, remain valid.

11 December 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Combatants / Former combatants - 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 - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rejected asylum-seekers - Right to family life - Single heads of household - Tamil - Unlawful departure | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

16 September 2009 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Combatants / Former combatants - Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Tamil | Countries: Australia - Sri Lanka

13 January 2009 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Civil and political rights - Country of origin information (COI) - Economic, social and cultural rights - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Security situation - Social group persecution - Tamil | Countries: New Zealand - Sri Lanka

Heard at Field House, on 11-13 February 2008. This determination updates and supersedes PS (LTTE – internal flight – sufficiency of protection) Sri Lanka CG [2004] UKIAT 297. PR (medical facilities) Sri Lanka CG [2002] UKIAT 4269 is, owing to its antiquity, no longer to be treated as country guidance on the availability of medical treatment for returnees. The guidance in PS and LP (LTTE Area - Tamils - Colombo - Risk?) Sri Lanka CG [2007] UKAIT 00076, however, has been considered and approved by the European Court of Human Rights in NA v United Kingdom, handed down on 17th July 2008. See also R (on the application of SS (Sri Lanka)) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 223 (Admin), which confirmed the approach to the current risk as stated in NA.

6 July 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Security forces - Security situation | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

21 February 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Muslim - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - State protection | Countries: New Zealand - Sri Lanka