Case Law

15 August 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Criminal justice - Prosecution vs persecution - Transgression of social / cultural norms | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

3 August 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Shia - Transgression of social / cultural norms | Countries: Pakistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

18 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Agents of persecution - 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) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - State protection - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: India - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

16 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution - Right to justice | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5 May 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Derivative status - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Türkiye - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5 April 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Effective protection - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Sunni | Countries: Pakistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Judicial Review of a decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

2 February 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Deportation / Forcible return - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Rejected asylum-seekers - Single heads of household | Countries: Angola - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

31 January 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Russian Federation - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

23 June 2005 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Countries: Russian Federation - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland