Serbia

On appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales): [2008] EWCA Civ 14.

4 February 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Ashkaelian - Burden of proof - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Roma | Countries: Serbia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard on 16 and 17 April 2008. On appeal from the England and Wales Court of Appeal: [2006] EWCA Civ 1713.

25 June 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Changes of circumstances in home country - Deportation / Forcible return - Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) - Kosovar - Right to family life | Countries: Serbia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard on 10 and 14 April 2008. On appeal from the England and Wales Court of Appeal: [2006] EWCA Civ 1619 and [2007] EWCA Civ 1326, respectively.

25 June 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Complementary forms of protection - Deportation / Forcible return - Equality before the law - Kosovar - Right to family life - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Serbia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from the England and Wales Court of Appeal: [2004] EWCA Civ 638.

28 November 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Asylum-seekers - Smuggling of persons | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

15 February 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Albanians - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Kosovar | Countries: Serbia - Sudan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from [2002] EWCA Civ 1403. The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 (United Nations) Art.1C(5) and the proviso to it could not be relied on before it had been determined whether an asylum seeker was entitled to refugee status under Art.1A(2), and in any event the proviso only applied to "statutory refugees" under Art.1A(1) to which it expressly referred and there was no general practice of states to apply the proviso to all refugees.

10 March 2005 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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24 January 2002 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: House of Lords (Judicial Committee) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country | Countries: Serbia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland