Court rejects HIV asylum seeker – BBC News
“An HIV-positive Ugandan woman’s claim to stay in the UK has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.”
BBC News, 27th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: asylum
Regina v Asfaw – Times Law Reports
House of Lords
“The humanitarian aims of the UN Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd 3906) were to be achieved by construing its words purposively.”
The Times, 26th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
R v Asfaw (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees intervening) – WLR Daily
“A refugee, who arrived in the United Kingdom directly from the country of persecution in transit to a country of preferred refuge, was entitled to the protection from prosecution provided by art 31(1) of the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees when, in attempting to leave the United Kingdom after a short stop-over she presented false documentation to the airline for onward travel to her intended sanctuary.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
BE (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
BE (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 540; [2008] WLR (D) 159
“An Iranian soldier who had been ordered in peacetime to plant land mines liable to kill or maim innocent civilians, and who had deserted, was entitled to international protection as a refugee since the order constituted a requirement that he commit a grave violation of human rights which could further be characterised as ‘gross’ and ‘an atrocity’.
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Gay student who faced execution in Iran granted asylum in Britain – The Independent
“A gay man who faces the death penalty in Iran has won asylum in the UK after protests prompted the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, to reconsider his case.”
The Independent, 21st May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (Nasseri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports
Regina (Nasseri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“A provision which prevented the Secretary of State for the Home Department from considering whether certain listed countries would return asylum seekers in violation of their human rights did not enact an absolute bar, but was limited in scope.”
The Times, 20th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Asylum seekers should be renamed sanctuary seekers, report says – Daily Telegraph
“The word ‘asylum’ should be phased out and replaced with ‘sanctuary’ when used in relation to foreigners seeking shelter in Britain, a report said today.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R (Nasseri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
R (Nasseri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 464; [2008] WLR (D) 150
“The scope of the deeming provision in Sch 3, Pt 2, para 3(2) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004, which required states listed in Sch 2, Pt 2, para 2 of the Act to be treated as countries safe for a person to be returned, was limited to the actual process of executive decision or adjudication of whether a person’s removal would contravene his rights under art 3 of the Human Rights Convention. It did not preclude a more general consideration of whether a listed state’s laws and practices were Convention compliant, therefore the list system was not incompatible with art 3 of the Convention.”
WLR Daily, 15th May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (A) v West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust – Times Law Reports
Regina (A) v West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Queen’s Bench Division
“A failed asylum seeker could become ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom so as to be eligible for free treatment by the National Health Service.”
The Times, 13th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Kurdish father-to-be set for deportation to Iraq – The Guardian
“A Kurdish asylum seeker who has been living in Britain for eight years and whose wife is expecting their first baby is due to be deported today.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Nnyanzi v United Kingdom (Application No 21878/06) – Times Law Reports
Nnyanzi v United Kingdom (Application No 21878/06)
European Court of Human Rights
“There was no reason to belive that an applicant who unsuccessfully sought asylum, on the basis of her father’s political activities in Uganda, would be ill treated on her expulsion to that state.”
The Times, 23rd April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2008 and the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Fast Track Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2008 [CP 29/07] – Ministry of Justice
“This report summarises the responses to the consultation, including how the consultation process has influenced the final shape of the rules.”
Response to consultation (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 21st April 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Related link: Consultation paper (PDF)
Detention centres attacked as figures reveal self-harm by asylum-seekers – The Independent
“The true cost of using detention centres to lock up failed asylum-seekers has been exposed by statistics showing the extent of self-harm among those held.”
The Independent, 19th April 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Betrayed’ Iraqi staff in test case over UK’s refusal to offer asylum – The Independent
“Iraqi interpreters, clerical staff and labourers who face death threats and persecution after risking their lives working for British forces are challenging the Government’s refusal to grant them sanctuary in the UK.”
The Independent, 14th April 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Refugee in High Court fight for NHS care – Daily Telegraph
“A failed asylum seeker is challenging regulations that prevent him receiving free treatment from the NHS.”
The Daily Telegraph, 11th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Asylum: the peers’ revolt – The Independent
“Britain must radically change its immigration policy and end immediately the deportation of failed asylum-seekers who fear persecution in Iran, a group of leading peers will tell the Government today.”
The Independent, 28th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
UK asylum system ‘is still not fit for purpose’ – The Times
“An independent report warned today that although the United Kingdom’s asylum system had improved slightly it was still not ‘fit for purpose’.
The Times, 27th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
UK defends Zimbabwean expulsions – BBC News
“The UK government has defended its decision to resume the deportation of failed asylum-seekers to Zimbabwe.”
BBC News, 17th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Reprieve for gay Iranian who fears he will be killed – The Times
“A gay Iranian teenager is to be allowed to stay in Britain because his case is now so notorious that it would be dangerous to deport him to Tehran.”
The Times, 14th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Iraqi asylum seekers given deadline to go home or face destitution in UK – The Guardian
“More than 1,400 rejected Iraqi asylum seekers are to be told they must go home or face destitution in Britain as the government considers Iraq safe enough to return them, according to leaked Home Office correspondence seen by the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
