The article offers information on the asylum case of HJ, an Iranian and HT, a Cameroon against Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) on the ground of homosexuality which was presented before Lord James Arthur David Hope, A...
FA is an Iraqi national who arrived in the United Kingdom when he was 15 years old. He made an application for asylum which the Secretary of State refused on the grounds that his claim was not credible. The Secretary of State also considered whether FA qualified for humanitarian protection a...
ZM v Secretary of State for the Home Department; HA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 12-14 January 2016. These conjoined appeals consider whether the rules that enable the Home Secretary to make a decision to deport...
The Supreme Court allowed the Secretary of State’s appeal. The AIT did not err in their assessment of MA’s lies and there was no error of law which warranted interference by the Court of Appeal. The appellate court should not characterise as an error of law what is, in reality, no ...
Secretary of State’s failure to make a removal decision at the same time, or shortly after, her decision to refuse the appellant leave to remain was unlawful. The other appeals related to the exclusion from consideration of new material under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, ...
The legislative background of the 2002 Act supported the Court’s conclusion – the ability of the Secretary of State to give removal directions frequently depended on practical and operational issues that were inherently unsuitable for resolution at the time of the appeal against the decision. For...