Legal Information

27 May 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Involuntary repatriation - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

On appeal from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.

18 March 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Terrorism | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

24 February 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Involuntary repatriation | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

17 December 2003 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The detention of the applicants in the transit zone beyond the deadline for their expulsion was therefore declared contrary to Art. 5 para. 1 of the ECHR. The judgment is only available in French.

27 November 2003 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Expulsion | Countries: Libya - Poland

12 September 2003 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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10 September 2003 | Judicial Body: International Court of Justice (ICJ) | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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10 September 2003 | Judicial Body: International Court of Justice (ICJ) | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Libya - United States of America

Attached is a rulling which may be of interest to you. It concerns a Libyan asylum-seeker who was awarded refugee status more than two years after having requested it. The delay was due to incompetence and mistakes made by the British Ministry of Interior (Home Office). He has been given leave to file a claim for damages and intends to ask for £30,000. Given the implications of this High Court ruling for numerous other asylum-seekers in similiar situations, the Home Office has lodged an appeal.

14 February 2003 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Libya - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland