Asylum in UK Law

  • R (Razgar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2004
    ... ... 1 Mr Razgar is an asylum seeker from Iraq whom the Secretary of State proposes to remove to Germany under the provisions of the Dublin Convention. Mr Razgar resists such ... ...
  • HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; HT (Cameroon) v Same
    • Supreme Court
    • 07 Julio 2010
    ... ... 1 These appeals raise the question as to the test which is to be applied when considering whether a gay person who is claiming asylum under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, as applied by the 1967 Protocol ("the Convention") has a well-founded fear of ... ...
  • Devaseelan v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Immigration Appeals Tribunal
    • 13 Marzo 2002
    ... ... He came to the United Kingdom on 22 August 1996. He was carrying a false passport. He claimed asylum. On 30 October 1996 he was refused asylum. He appealed. His appeal was heard by an adjudicator on 2 May 1998. The Appellant, who was represented by ... ...
  • Chikwamba v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Junio 2008
    ... ... It is the Government's policy that that should be so and that a failed asylum seeker should return, or be returned, to his or her country and make from there any applications for the right to reside in this country that he or ... ...
  • Navaratnam Kugathas v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Enero 2003
    ... ... LORD JUSTICE SEDLEY ... 1 This is an appeal, by permission of Schiemann LJ, by a Sri Lankan asylum-seeker against the oversetting by the Immigration Appeal Tribunal of an adjudicator's decision in his favour ... 2 The ... ...
  • Ullah v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2004
    ... ... He arrived in this country from Karachi in January 2001 and applied for asylum, claiming to have a well-founded fear of persecution in Pakistan as a result of his religious beliefs. The Secretary of State dismissed his claim for ... ...
  • R (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Julio 2005
    ... ... Part 9 Examples of the admission of new evidence or changed circumstances in asylum appeals 45 Part 10 The function of ... ...
  • E v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 Febrero 2004
    ... ... " As that passage recognises, there is an underlying tension in these cases between the "anxious scrutiny" appropriate to asylum cases ( Bugdaycay v Secretary of State [1987] AC 514 , 531E) and the important, but sometimes conflicting, principle of finality. Given the number ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Bugdaycay
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Febrero 1987
    ... ... In due course each claimed to be entitled to asylum in this country as a refugee from his country of origin. The claim in the case of Santis was made before the expiry of his temporary leave to enter, ... ...
  • R (AH and Others (Sudan)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Noviembre 2007
    ... ... They fled from Darfur, in NM's case after a six-month sojourn in Khartoum, arrived in this country and claimed asylum as refugees on dates in October - December 2004. In each case asylum was refused by the Secretary of State, whose refusal was upheld on appeal to an ... ...
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