- Court of Appeal rejects lowering threshold for denying refugee status to extremists
- Tribunal defines “historic injustice”
- Important Court of Appeal judgment on expert evidence and “credibility”
- Country guidance changes affect pending decisions if not already sent out to the parties
- Court of Appeal confirms no consultation duty for NHS advance charges
Suicidal refugee loses date of birth appeal
A Palestinian refugee threatening to take his own life in a dispute over the age recorded on his residence permit has lost a judicial review at the Court of Appeal. The case (WA (Palestinian Territories)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [ ...
15th January 2021Court of Appeal rejects lowering threshold for denying refugee status to extremists
How serious must a person’s “extremism” be to justify exclusion from the Refugee Convention? Three years ago, the Court of Appeal in Youssef & N2 v Secretary of State for the Home Department lowered the bar for exclusion from the Co ...
14th January 2021Tribunal defines “historic injustice”
Lawyers are prone to creating “terms of art”, i.e. a phrase which has a specific meaning within a particular branch of law, distinct from its usage in ordinary English. In Patel (historic injustice; NIAA Part 5A) India [2020] UKUT 351 (IAC ...
12th January 2021Important Court of Appeal judgment on expert evidence and “credibility”
The Court of Appeal has handed down a major judgment on the correct approach to assessing whether a person is a victim of trafficking: MN v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746. Although this was the central question in the ...
4th January 2021Country guidance changes affect pending decisions if not already sent out to the parties
Pending asylum appeals in Scotland can be affected by changes to country guidance right up to the point when they are sent out to the parties to the case, even if the judge has already signed off on his or decision, according to the Upper Tribunal in ...
22nd December 2020Court of Appeal confirms no consultation duty for NHS advance charges
In R (MP) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2020] EWCA Civ 1634, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision that there was no need for the government to consult the public before introducing advance charging of overseas ...
22nd December 2020