Title	SB (refugee revocation; IDP camps) Somalia [2019] UKUT 00358 (IAC)
Publisher	United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Publication Date	18 November 2019
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Somalia
Topics	Cessation clauses | Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA)
Cite as	SB (refugee revocation; IDP camps) Somalia [2019] UKUT 00358 (IAC), United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), 18 November 2019, available at: https://www.refworld.org/cases,GBR_UTIAC,5dd2ac364.html [accessed 21 May 2023]
Comments	(1) In Secretary of State for the Home Department v MS (Somalia) [2019] EWCA Civ 1345, the Court of Appeal has authoritatively decided that refugee status can be revoked on the basis that the refugee now has the ability to relocate internally within the country of their nationality or former habitual residence. The authoritative status of the Court of Appeal’s judgments in MS (Somalia) is not affected by the fact that counsel for MS conceded that internal relocation could in principle lead to cessation of refugee status. There is also nothing in the House of Lords’ opinions in R (Hoxha) v Special Adjudicator and Another [2005] UKHL 19 that compels a contrary conclusion to that reached by the Court of Appeal. (2) The conclusion of the Court of Appeal in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Said [2016] EWCA Civ 442 was that the country guidance in MOJ & Ors (Return to Mogadishu) Somalia CG [2014] UKUT 00442 (IAC) did not include any finding that a person who finds themselves in an IDP camp is thereby likely to face Article 3 ECHR harm (having regard to the high threshold established by D v United Kingdom (1997) 24 EHRR 43 and N v United Kingdom (2008) 47 EHRR 39). Although that conclusion may have been obiter, it was confirmed by Hamblen LJ in MS (Somalia). There is nothing in the country guidance in AA and Others (conflict; humanitarian crisis; returnees; FGM) Somalia [2011] UKUT 00445 (IAC) that requires a different view to be taken of the position of such a person. It will be an error of law for a judge to refuse to follow the Court of Appeal’s conclusion on this issue.
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