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25 June 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Combatants / Former combatants - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Pre-trial detention - Prison or detention conditions - Terrorism | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
On an appeal from [2009] EWCA Civ 364.
17 March 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Exclusion clauses - Tamil - Terrorism - War crimes | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Application for permission to apply for judicial review.
4 March 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2 March 2010 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Death penalty - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Right to life | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 | Document type: Case Law | 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
Heard at Birmingham, 10 June 2008 and Field House, 23 January 2009. NH (Iraq-Yazidis) Iraq CG [2004] UKIAT 00306 is no longer to be followed.
2 December 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Armed forces / Military - Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Combatants / Former combatants - Country of origin information (COI) - International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to life - Security situation - War crimes - Yazīdī | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Application for judicial review.
5 November 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Deportation / Forcible return - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Tamil | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Application for permission to appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT No. AA/02780/2008).
23 July 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Combatants / Former combatants - Credibility assessment - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Application for Leave to Appeal under Section 103B of the Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.
18 June 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations - Combatants / Former combatants - Deportation / Forcible return - Exclusion clauses - Persecution based on political opinion - Serious non-political crime - Terrorism | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
2 April 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Exclusion clauses - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: Sri Lanka - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland