All Articles: persecution
Briefing: What does “sufficiency of protection” mean in UK asylum law?
The inelegant phrase “a sufficiency of protection” originates in a now obscure series of tribunal determinations from the 1990s. It was eventually entrenched in law by the House of Lords case of Horvath [2001] AC 489, but the diverse judgm ...
20th June 2019Could Catalan separatists qualify for refugee status in the UK?
Carles Puigdemont, erstwhile President de la Generalitat de Catalunya, fled Spain to Belgium this week following his parliament’s unilateral declaration of independence for Catalonia. Several of his ministers followed him into exile. A European ...
3rd November 2017