Case Law

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 | 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

On appeal from the Divisional Court: [2008] EWHC 3098 (Admin). Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused. An admissibility application was subsequently made before the European Court of Human Rights; see Al-Saadoon and Mufdhi v. United Kingdom.

21 January 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Death penalty - Human rights and fundamental freedoms - Human rights law - Jurisdiction - Regional instruments - Right to life - War crimes | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland