Case Law

14 July 2014 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Effective protection - Gender-based persecution - Honour killings - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rejected asylum-seekers - SGBV - Women-at-risk | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 21 and 22 April 2010

22 April 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Domestic violence - Gender discrimination - Gender-based persecution - Honour killings - Non-state agents of persecution - Police - Prison or detention conditions - Refugee / Asylum law - Return conditions - SGBV - Social group persecution | Countries: Pakistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for judicial review.

26 March 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Fresh / New claim - Honour killings - Kurd - Right to family life - Social group persecution - Transgression of social / cultural norms | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Glasgow (Eagle Building) on 7 May 2008. The guidance in SM and Others (Kurds - Protection - Relocation) Iraq CG [2005] UKIAT 00111 regarding relocation of a Kurd from the KRG to central or southern Iraq is confirmed.

15 December 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Blood feuds - Complementary forms of protection - Country of origin information (COI) - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Honour killings - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Kurd | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Please note that the following apology has been published alongside SD (expert evidence) Lebanon [2008] UKAIT 00078: "During the period 24 September 2008 to 10 October 2008 we carried a case report which was cited as SD (expert evidence) Lebanon [2008] UKAIT 00070 in which criticisms were made of Dr Alan George. Due to an administrative error the report which was published was a draft rather than the AIT's final determination (which differed from the draft in material respects). The error has now been corrected and the final determination has been substituted for the draft. We sincerely apologise to Dr George for our error."

24 September 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Honour killings - Illegitimate children - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Social group persecution | Countries: Lebanon - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Petition for judicial review.

12 July 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Effective protection - Grounds for persecution - Honour killings - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Non-state agents of persecution - Social group persecution | Countries: Turkey - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland