Whether an asylum applicant had a well founded fear of persecution if he returned home, is always a question of fact and degree, and could not be made a question of law. Even so where there was a clear risk of repeated rather than single beatings if the applicant returned, it was likely that the … Continue reading Demirkaya v Secretary of State for Home Department: CA 23 Jun 1999
The three Tamil applicants had left the area of Sri Lanka controlled by the Tamil Tigers and gone to live in Colombo. It was asserted that in Colombo they had a well-founded fear of persecution because they were young male Tamils and were therefore subject to security round-ups of such people which occurred when the … Continue reading Regina v The Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another ex parte Rajendrakumar: CA 11 Oct 1995
Application for judicial review of decisions by the Secretary of State certifying claims made on behalf of the claimant as manifestly unfounded in accordance with section 72(2)(a) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Citations: [2003] EWHC 1788 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 72(2)(a) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Immigration Updated: 20 … Continue reading Bardiqi, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Admn 14 Jul 2003
The claimant challenged the refusal of a right to appeal against the decision refusing hs asylum appeal. He had failed to attend two hearings. The respondent gave his certificate under section 73 that in his opinion the only purpose of the appeal was to delay removal. Held: The correct approach was to to treat it … Continue reading Sandhu, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Admn 16 Sep 2003
The applicant had failed to comply with the Rules in not using the form prescribed for appliying for leave to appeal against a special adjudicator’s decision to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal. The application, by letter, included all the relevant information required by the prescribed form except. The difference was in the absence of a statement … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex Parte Jeyeanthan; Ravichandran v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 21 May 1999
Appeal from dismissed of the appeal from the refusal of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to grant his application for asylum. The point of importance which is said to arise relates to what was said by this Court in Robinson [1997] Imm AR 94. In deciding whether it would be reasonable to … Continue reading Gnanam v Secretary of State for Home Department: CA 30 Apr 1999
The defendant had been called to the bar but was not within any chambers and did not have a practising certificate and was not subject to the Bar’s disciplinary code. He was prosecuted for providing immigration and advice service and advice whilst unauthorised. Held: The intention of the Act was to ensure that only those … Continue reading K, Regina v: CACD 14 Aug 2008
Depending always on the particular facts of the case, there might well be ‘an evidential burden on the Secretary of State to establish that [the asylum seeker] could safely be returned home.’ Citations: [1999] EWCA Civ 808, [1999] Imm AR 327 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Hoxha and Another v Secretary of … Continue reading Secretary of State for Home Department v Arif: CA 17 Feb 1999
The claimant had been detained at 11.25pm. His detention was not reviewed by an inspector until 7.45am the next morning, although it had been considered in the interim at 1.45am by an officer of junior rank. The plaintiff sued for unlawful imprisonment for the period of 2 hours and 20 minutes from 5.25am (when the … Continue reading Roberts v Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary: CA 26 Jan 1999
(Australia) A claim to refugee status was made by a husband and wife who had come from China to Australia. They said that they feared sterilization under the ‘one child policy’ of China if they were returned. Held: There is a general principle that there can only be a ‘particular social group’ within the Convention … Continue reading A v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Another: 1997
Appeals were brought complaining as to the apparent reversal of the burden of proof in road traffic cases and in cases under the Terrorism Acts. Was a legal or an evidential burden placed on a defendant? Held: Lord Bingham of Cornhill said: ‘The overriding concern is that a trial should be fair, and the presumption … Continue reading Sheldrake v Director of Public Prosecutions; Attorney General’s Reference No 4 of 2002: HL 14 Oct 2004
The claimant had sought support which had been refused by the Home Secretary on the basis that he was no longer an asylum seeker. The claimant sought judicial review of the refusal of his appeal by the Chief Asylum Support adjudicator. The Home Secretary said that there was no jurisdiction to hear such an appeal. … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department, Regina (on the Application of) v Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator and Another: Admn 30 Nov 2006
Where an Immigration Appeal Tribunal heard a case and the judgment would depend upon an assessment of the applicant as to his credibility, a delay of three months between the hearing and the delivery of the judgment was too long. The impression made by the characters involved would have faded, and such a finding could … Continue reading Sambasivam v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 10 Nov 1999
The claimants in two separate claims apply to renew ex parte injunctions, obtained without notice, until trial. The claims arise out of proposals by the Home Office to use two hotels to accommodate asylum seekers. Judges: The Hon Mr Justice Holgate Citations: [2022] EWHC 2868 (KB) Links: Bailii, Judiciary Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 … Continue reading Ipswich Borough Council v Fairview Hotels (Ipswich) Ltd and Another: KBD 11 Nov 2022
The claimant sought judicial review of the Defendant’s failure to assess her son’s needs for the purposes of providing accommodation and support under section 17 of the 1989 Act. While the case is specific to its particular facts, it raises the question of the extent to which the Defendant could rely upon the Secretary of … Continue reading ES, Regina (on The Application of) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: Admn 27 Mar 2013
The Asylum Support adjudicators had allowed appeals by the asylum failed seekers, and had awarded them support. The Secretary of State now appealed. The failed asylum seekers had been unable to leave the country and having been refused support were destitute. Held: The decisions had been wrong. The decision fell to be made in stages. … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department, Regina (on the Application of) v Asylum Support Adjudicator and others: Admn 16 May 2006
The House of Lords has the power to hear a case where the parties have in effect settled and there remains no lis at issue, but the House will not hear such an academic case where no general issue of importance is at stake, or the facts are particular. There must be a good reason … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex Parte Salem: HL 3 Mar 1999
The court considered the relationship between section 10 of the 1999 Act, and the appeal provisions in sections 82 and 92 of the 2002 Act and the extent to which, if any, a decision under section 10 of the 1999 Act could be challenged by judicial review rather than an out-of-country appeal. Held: The court … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department v Regina (on the Application of) Lim and Another: CA 25 Jul 2007
Even the justified fears of being stoned to death for adultery did not create a particular separate group from which protection from persecution could be claimed in support of an application for asylum. A ‘social group’ for refugee applicants, had to share common uniting characteristic which set that group apart from rest of that society. … Continue reading Regina v Immigration Appeal Tribunal Secretary of State for Home Department ex parte Shah and Others: CA 23 Jul 1997
The appellate sought judicial review to challenge an order for his return to Albania. He said that he would be subject to persecution from communist sympathizers, and his life was at risk for a blood feud. Adjudicators had variously accepted and rejected both claims, but concluded that he could avail himself of internal flight. He … Continue reading Hari Dhima v Immigration Appeal Tribunal: Admn 8 Feb 2002
Where a notice of liability was served on a transport operator with regard to his responsibility for transporting illegal immigrants into the country, and he wished to challenge it, the proper approach was to allow the notice to expire, and then to defend any proceedings brought. Given that way of dealing with it, it was … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex Parte Balbo B and C Auto Transporti Internazionali: Admn 22 Mar 2001
The appellant had – in a fictitious identity that was not that of another, real, person – claimed and been granted asylum, indefinite leave to remain and British citizenship. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions accepted that the appellant was not ‘a person subject to immigration control’ within the meaning of section 115 … Continue reading ED v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: UTAA 15 Dec 2020
Application for permission to appeal which, on the face of it, is concerned solely with the incidence of costs. It does, however, raise quite clearly an important point of principle. A family of asylum seekers who had a legal entitlement to some form of accommodation under the 1999 Act, albeit they had made a false … Continue reading Kuzjeva and Another, Regina (on the Application Of) v London Borough of Southwark: CA 21 Nov 2001
The claimant wished to assert that, during his removal from the UK to Iraq, he had been assaulted by the British escorts. Judges: Longmore, Kitchin LJJ, Sir Mark Waller Citations: [2012] EWCA Civ 422 Links: Bailii Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 14 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Police, Torts – Other Updated: 06 October 2022; … Continue reading Salimi, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department and Another: CA 4 Apr 2012
The United Kingdom’s ban on homosexuals within the armed forces was a breach of the applicants’ right to respect for their private and family life. Applicants had also been denied an effective remedy under the Convention. The investigations into private lives and sexual activity were intrusive, and given the excessive consequences following, were also striking … Continue reading Smith and Grady v The United Kingdom: ECHR 27 Sep 1999
Can a person who would otherwise be a ‘person subject to immigration control’ under Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, s 115(9) rely on the provisions of SI 2000/636 which exempt a member of a family of a national of a state which is a party to the Oporto Agreement on the European Economic Area if … Continue reading Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v AS (CA) (Other Current Benefits, Residence and Presence Conditions): UTAA 4 Feb 2021
An asylum seeker who was found to be destitute and had failed in his application was entitled to restricted support under the section. The respondent implemented a policy restricting the restriction on the use of the power to those who had some physical impediment preventing movement. The applicant had not been evicted, but had had … Continue reading Salih and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Admn 8 Oct 2003
There is a right of appeal against removal directions under section 65 of the 1999 Act on the ground that removal would be in breach of a person’s human rights. Auld LJ was not impressed by an argument that a restrictive interpretation was necessary to prevent abuse. On the one hand a last-minute challenge would … Continue reading Kariharan and Another, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Home Department: CA 15 Apr 2002
Each defendant appealed saying that being themselves the victims of people trafficking, the prosecutions had failed to take into account its obligations under the Convention. Held: Prosecutors had ‘a three-stage exercise of judgment. The first is: (1) is there a reason to believe that the person has been trafficked? If so, then (2) if there … Continue reading LM and Others v Regina; Regina v M(L), B(M) and G(D): CACD 21 Oct 2010
The court was asked upon whom falls the financial burden of providing accommodation to an eighteen year old asylum seeker who is also a ‘former relevant child’, to the extent that his welfare requires it, where the asylum seeker is not in education or training. Does it fall upon the local authority, pursuant to its … Continue reading SO, Regina (on The Application of) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: CA 12 Oct 2010
The claimants challenge the decision of the Home Secretary to offer the first claimant support in the form of accommodation and subsequently vouchers to purchase food and essential toiletries. The first claimant declined the offer because it would require him to live separately from his partner, the second claimant, and his young daughter. Judges: Supperstone … Continue reading Kiana and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department: Admn 20 Apr 2010
Anonymised Party to Proceedings The BBC challenged an order made by the Court of Session in judicial review proceedings, permitting the applicant review to delete his name and address and substituting letters of the alphabet, in the exercise (or, as the BBC argues, purported exercise) of a common law power. The court also gave directions … Continue reading A v British Broadcasting Corporation (Scotland): SC 8 May 2014
The claimants, in the US awaiting execution for murders, challenged the permitting by the defendant for export of the chemical Sodium Thipental which would be used for their execution. The respondent said that its use in general anaesthesia practice meant that it was not subject to control. The claimants said that the export was a … Continue reading Zagorski and Baze, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Others: Admn 29 Nov 2010
The Court considered the procedures when a prisoner is kept in solitary confinement, otherwise described as ‘segregation’ or ‘removal from association’, and principally whether decisions to keep the appellants in segregation for substantial periods were taken lawfully. Held: The segregation was not authorised by the applicable legislation: ‘rule 45 . . (1) enables the governor … Continue reading Bourgass and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Justice: SC 29 Jul 2015
The defendants faced charges under the two Acts. They raised as a preliminary issue whether it is necessary for the Crown to prove that the property being converted was in fact the proceeds, in the case of the 1994 Act, of drug trafficking and, in the case of the 1988 Act, of crime. The Crown … Continue reading Regina v Montila and Others: HL 25 Nov 2004
Judges: Lord Mackay Of Drumadoon And Lord Macfadyen And Lord Marnoch Citations: [2004] ScotCS 76 Links: Bailii Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Jurisdiction: Scotland Immigration Updated: 21 July 2022; Ref: scu.195160
IAT ‘This case is one of the first to raise issues under section 65 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. It requires the Tribunal to examine in particular certain aspects of the protection afforded by article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights to the right to respect for private and family life … Continue reading Nhundu and Chiwera v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Zimbabwe): IAT 1 Jun 2001
Challenge to rules requiring certain minimum levels of income (Minimum Income Requirement – MIR) for allowing entry for non-EEA spouse. Held: The challenges udder the Human Rights Act to the Rules themselves failed. Nor did any separate issue of discrimination arise under article 14. However, the appendix with instructions for entry clearance officers considering the … Continue reading MM (Lebanon) and Others, Regina (on The Applications of) v Secretary of State and Another: SC 22 Feb 2017
The claimant, a failed asylum seeker, sought judicial review of the refusal to him of accomodation Judges: Silber J Citations: [2008] EWHC 2282 (Admin) Links: Bailii Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 4, Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) Regulations 2005 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Immigration, Housing Updated: 19 July 2022; Ref: … Continue reading Ahmed, Regina (on the Application of) v Asylum Support Adjudicator and Another: Admn 2 Oct 2008
A Brazilian mother came to the Netherlands in 1994 and set up home with a Dutch national but not applying for a residence permit. In 1996 they had a daughter who became a Dutch national. In 1997 they split up and the daughter remained with her father. It was eventually confirmed by the Dutch courts … Continue reading Rodrigues Da Silva and Hoogkamer v The Netherlands: ECHR 31 Jan 2006
The applicant complained under Article 8 that the Swiss authorities had not renewed his residence permit, after which he had been separated from his wife, a Swiss citizen and who could not be expected to follow him to Algeria. Switzerland argued that his conviction for an offence of violence was sufficient justification for interfering with … Continue reading Boultif v Switzerland: ECHR 2 Aug 2001
The claimants sought damages and other reliefs after being wrongfully detained by immigration officers for several days, during which they had been detained at a detention centre and left locked up when it burned down, being released only by other inmates. The respondent argued that immigration officers had immunity from suit. Held: Brooke LJ said … Continue reading ID and others v The Home Office (BAIL for Immigration Detainees intervening): CA 27 Jan 2005
The asylum seeker had sought support from the Secretary of State. That assistance had been granted subject to a condition that she live where directed. She sought to appeal. Held: There was no right of appeal against the condition. The jurisdiction must come from section 103(2). That section made it clear that a right of … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department, Regina (on the Application of) v Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator and Another: Admn 25 Oct 2002
The defendant had had responsibility to investigate and if necessary prosecute a company suspected of serious offences of bribery and corruption in the conduct of contract negotiations. The investigation had been stopped, alledgedly at the instigation of the government of Saudi Arabia, with a threat of ceasing co-operation in security arrangements. Held: The rule of … Continue reading Corner House Research and Campaign Against Arms Trade, Regina (on the Application of) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office and Another: Admn 10 Apr 2008
The applicant was an asylum seeker reliant upon the respondent for housing, being otherwise destitute. She sought housing which would not split up her extended family. She claimed that the regulations excluded from the respondent’s decision making process an element, her right to respect for family life, which he was obliged under the Convention to … Continue reading Hetoja, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Admn 24 Oct 2002
The claimants had each been detained without trial for more than two years, being held as suspected terrorists. They were free leave to return to their own countries, but they feared for their lives if returned. They complained that the evidence used to justify their detention was derived from practices involving torture by the US … Continue reading A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, Mahmoud Abu Rideh Jamal Ajouaou v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 11 Aug 2004
Of two brothers, one sought to remain here to protect the other (a refugee settled here) from the consequences of his florid schizophrenia. Held: The appeal was allowed. The brother settled here had brought contingent separate proceedings in case they proved necessary. Citations: [2005] EWCA Civ 1721 Links: Bailii Statutes: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 … Continue reading Ahmadi and Another, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 12 Dec 2005
The claimants were dependants of Iraqi nationals killed in Iraq. Held: The Military Police were operating when Britain was an occupying power. The question in each case was whether the Human Rights Act applied to the acts of the defendant. The question amounted to whether the officers acted under State Agent Authority within the convention … Continue reading Regina (on the Application of Mazin Mumaa Galteh Al-Skeini and Others) v The Secretary of State for Defence: CA 21 Dec 2005
It was wrong to say that an asylum seeker had the option of internal flight where, having once fled, he had been informed that he was being sought by the police and would be returned to the part where he had a well founded fear of persecution. Citations: Times 27-Jan-1999 Statutes: Asylum and Immigration Appeals … Continue reading Singh v Secretary of State for the Home Department: IHCS 27 Jan 1999
Application for permission to appeal – whether 1999 Regulations were ultra vires. Citations: [2002] EWCA Civ 1451 Links: Bailii Statutes: Asylum Support (Interim Provisions) Regulations 1999, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Immigration Updated: 01 July 2022; Ref: scu.217742
This case is reported for what we say about the exercise of the power to make directions to give effect to a determination, pursuant to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and pursuant to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 ( as amended by the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004); … Continue reading EA (Family Visitor, Directions, Mistake of Fact, Unfairness) Ghana: IAT 1 Jun 2005
The claimants sought to maintain their claims for asylum. They had fled persecution, but before their claims for asylum were determined conditions in their home country changed so that they could no longer be said to have a well founded fear of persecution. Held: The decision on the grant required the fear to remain well … Continue reading Hoxha and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department: HL 10 Mar 2005
‘The Appellant is a Lebanese citizen who claimed asylum in 2000 and was refused asylum in May 2001. When refusing asylum, the Secretary of State certified the asylum claim under paragraph 9(4)(b), Schedule 4 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. Those provisions relate to the asylum claim. There are other provisions within paragraph 9 … Continue reading MM (Certificate and Remittal, Jurisdiction) Lebanon: IAT 31 Jan 2005
The appellants sought judicial review of the refusal of asylum. They sought leave to appeal to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, but that had been refused. They then sought a statutory review by a judge of the Administrative division. That review also was refused. They complained that they had not been given an opportunity to make … Continue reading Regina on the Application of M v Immigration Appeal Tribunal; Regina (G) v Immigration Appeal Tribunal: CA 16 Dec 2004
The applicants were asylum seekers. They were made subject to certificates issued by the Secretary of State which would require refoulement, for them to be returned to the country into which they first made their escape for their application for asylum to ?e considered. They complained particularly that Germany was not a safe country to … Continue reading Mohammad, Manoharan, Sakhee, Yogarajah v The Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD 24 Jan 2002
The claimant appealed refusal of his claim for asylum, saying that an order for his removal would breach his article 8 rights in separating him from his family. Held: The Tribunal was wrong to think that Advic said that family ties could never give rise to an article 8 infringement on removal. The issue was … Continue reading Nadarajah Senthuran v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 16 Jul 2004
The mother had applied here for asylum. Her application had been refused but was subject to appeal. The father in India sought the return of the children on the basis that they had been removed from a Convention country which was their habitual residence, and against his will as their father. The mother applied for … Continue reading In re S (Children) (Child abduction: Asylum appeal): FD 24 Apr 2002
The claimant was stopped when boarding a flight to Canada, having previously stopped in France and Italy. He bore a false Swedish passport, and intended to claim asylum in Canada. He now claimed the benefit of the article 31 (per Adimi), to defend a prosecution under the 1981 Act for using a false instrument. Held: … Continue reading Regina (on the Application of Gjovalin Pepushi) v Crown Prosecution Service: Admn 11 May 2004
The court considered the duties of local authorities to support infirm asylum seekers with children. Held: The authority had an obligation to support the adult, but the responsibility for the children fell on the National Asylum Support Service. Judges: Lord Justice Rix, LCJ, Lord Justice Carnwath Citations: [2004] EWCA Civ 535, Times 27-May-2004, [2004] 2 … Continue reading Regina, ex parte O v The London Borough of Haringey, The Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 4 May 2004
A family of asylum seekers with two disabled children would be destitute without ‘adequate’ accommodation. What was such accommodation? Held: The authority was under an absolute duty to house such a family. In satisfying such duty, it was adequate to place them immediately in temporary accommodation which would be adequate in the short term, pending … Continue reading Regina (on the Application of A) v National Asylum Support Service, London Borough of Waltham Forest: CA 23 Oct 2003
The applicant was an asylum applicant. She sought to appeal a decision to stop support payments. She appealed a decision that she had no right to appeal. Held: A decision which might give rise to an appeal only occurred if the applicant had an existing right to support which had been terminated. Judges: Sir Andrew … Continue reading Regina (Secretary of State for the Home Department) v Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator and Another (Ahment Godan): CA 28 Oct 2003
The grant by the Secretary of State of exceptional leave to remain in the UK, did not remove the right of an asylum seeker to appeal a rejection of his claim for asylum. The applicant had the right to have his status, and the UK’s compliance with international obligation determined. Held: The granting of special … Continue reading Regina (Saad and Others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 19 Dec 2001
The applicant asylum seeker had had her application refused, and was awaiting a removal order. She had a child and asked the authority to house her pending her removal. Held: Provided she was not in breach of the removal order, the council had power to provide her with assistance. Though the authority had no duty … Continue reading M v London Borough of Islington and Another: CA 2 Apr 2004
The claimant, a Somali woman, had arrived at Gatwick Airport from Yemen at 10.30 pm on 29 August 1999 and not claimed asylum until 31 August (the intervening day being a bank holiday). Her reason for not claiming at Gatwick was that she was accompanied by an agent who unsurprisingly was concerned that nothing be … Continue reading Shire v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: CA 13 Oct 2003
The applicant, a foreign national had been given temporary admission to the UK. He received income support. But this ceased after his asylum application was rejected, and he remained resident. Held: The legislation now made specific reference to the concept of lawful presence, and required this before an entitlement to benefits arose. The case of … Continue reading Szoma v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: CA 30 Jul 2003
In each case asylum applicants had been certified as suitable to be returned to the first country at which they had arrived on fleeing their home countries. Held: To determine whether article 8 was engaged given the territoriality principle, the following should be considered. First, the claimant’s case in relation to his private life in … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department, Regina on the Application of Soumahoro; Regina on the Application of Nadarajah; and similar: CA 19 Jun 2003
A scheme had been introduced to arrange pre-entry clearance for visitors to the United Kingdom by posting of immigration officers in the Czech Republic. The claimants argued that the system was discriminatory, because Roma visitors were now subjected to a much more rigorous examination than others, and also that the arrangement put the respondent in … Continue reading European Roma Rights Centre and others v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport and Another: CA 20 May 2003
The applicants sought to assert a local connection, having been housed in the respondent’s areas as destitute asylum seekers. Held: The accomodation was not one of the applicant’s choice, and therefore could not be relied upon to establish a local connection under the Act. The respondent’s decision to refer the applicants back to authorities in … Continue reading Al-Ameri, Osmani v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea/London Borough of Harrow: CA 28 Feb 2003
The appellant was the mother of a child, who was claiming asylum. The father sought the return of the child to India, claiming he had been abducted by the mother. She said that whilst her claim for asylum was extant, the court must not allow her or the child to be removed. Held: India was … Continue reading In re S (Children) (Child abduction: Asylum appeal): CA 28 May 2002
The applicants were subject to removal directions following the failures of their applications for asylum had failed. The decisions were made before the Human Rights Act came into effect, but the direction orders were made afterwards. They sought to challenge the directions on Human Rights grounds. Held: They had a right of appeal since the … Continue reading Regina (on the Application of Kanagasingham Kariharan and Kanagara) v Secretary of State for the Home Office: CA 30 Jul 2002
The Appellant had introduced a system of fining lorry drivers returning to the UK with illegal immigrants hiding away in their trucks. The rules had been found to be in breach of European law and an interference with their human rights. The penalties were substantial, though there existed a system of appeals. Held: The principle … Continue reading Secretary of State for the Home Department v International Transport Roth Gmbh and others: CA 22 Feb 2002
The applicant sought to appeal against a refusal of leave to appeal against an arbitration. There had been some delay for the applicant’s health. Held: Leave to appeal having been refused there was no further right of appeal under the 1999 Act. A court will not entertain judicial review proceedings where an alternative remedy subsists. … Continue reading Regina (on the Application of Sivasubramaniam) v Wandsworth County Court: Admn 13 Dec 2001
Hudoc Judgment (Merits and just satisfaction) Preliminary objection rejected (non-exhaustion); Violation of Art. 3; Violation of Art. 6-1; Non-pecuniary damage – financial award; Costs and expenses award – Convention proceedingsThe claimant said that he had been severely beaten whilst detained in police custody for interview. Held: ‘Article 3 enshrines one of the most fundamental values … Continue reading Selmouni v France: ECHR 28 Jul 1999
Two foreign nationals with leave to remain in this country committed serious crimes. The Secretary of State ordered their deportation. Held: Where the deportation of a foreigner following a conviction here, would conflict with his human rights, the court had to assess whether the, first, the objective could be achieved by some alternative, less interfering, … Continue reading Samaroo and Sezek v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 17 Jul 2001
(Antigua and Barbuda) The applicant was employed as a civil servant. He joined a demonstration alleging corruption in a minister. It was alleged he had infringed his duties as a civil servant, and he replied that the constitution allowed him to speak out. Held: The demonstration did contravene the restriction on publishing his views. Analogies … Continue reading De Freitas v The Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Lands and Housing and others: PC 30 Jun 1998
The claimant applied to be housed as a homeless person. The authority sought to refer him to a different authority under s198. As an asylum seeker, he had been given assistance both in Portsmouth and Southampton before coming to Ipswich. He said that he had not gone to Southampton freely, but had been placed there … Continue reading Ozbek v Ispwich Borough Council: CA 4 May 2006
A local authority’s duty to an asylum seeker to provide the basics of life, did not extend to a third re-housing attempt after the applicant had twice been evicted for the use of violence and breaches of house rules. Citations: Times 20-Apr-1999, [1999] EWHC Admin 285, (1999) 2 CCLR 340 Links: Bailii Statutes: National Assistance … Continue reading Regina v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ex parte Muriqi Kujtim: Admn 31 Mar 1999
A country which had previously rejected an asylum application could nevertheless properly be a safe third country to which a asylum applicant could be deported. Germany is a country which would abide by its obligations under international treaties. Citations: Times 18-Dec-1998, [1998] EWHC Admin 1085 Links: Bailii Statutes: Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 2(c) Citing: … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for Home Department ex parte Lul Omar Adan: Admn 24 Nov 1998
The applicant sought financial support whilst her application for asylum was considered. She was HIV positive, and had a child to breastfeed. Without financial assistance she would have to breast feed causing a risk of transmitting HIV to her child. Held: The Secretary of State should have seen her circumstances as sufficiently exceptional to deserve … Continue reading Regina (T and Another) v Secretary of State for Health and Another: QBD 29 Jul 2002
The claimant sought a declaration that the obligation on the respondent to continue to support the child of an asylum seeker when the parent had ceased to be entitled to support, continued despite the 2002 Act. Held: The statute was quite clear. The obligation to provide support for the child under the 1999 Act continued … Continue reading B, Regina (on the Application of) v The Asylum Support Adjudicator and Another: Admn 19 Sep 2005
An appeal by the Home Secretary against a ruling that he had to use the same prescribed form as would be used by the asylum seeker. The use of a letter which omitted a substantial and important declaration was invalid. Lord Woolf MR made plain the court’s general reluctance to hold that the effect of … Continue reading Regina v Immigration Appeal Tribunal, ex Parte Jeyeanthan: Admn 3 Apr 1998
Both applicants, Islam and Shah, citizens of Pakistan, but otherwise unconnected with each other, had suffered violence in Pakistan after being falsely accused them of adultery. Both applicants arrived in the UK and were granted leave to enter as visitors for six months. Both applicants subsequently applied for asylum on the ground that having been … Continue reading Regina v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another ex parte Shah: HL 25 Mar 1999
The degree of protection from non-state persecution available to an asylum seeker, is a relevant factor in asylum applications. Where that protection was inadequate, for reasons not related to the nature of that persecution, that also was relevant. It affected the issues of whether persecution existed, whether the fear of it was well founded, and … Continue reading Horvath v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 2 Dec 1999
The BBC wished to interview the prisoner who had been detained pending extradition to the US since 2004, and now challenged decision to refuse the interview. Held: The claim succeeded. The decision was quashed and must be retaken. If ever any case justified exceptional treatment, this was one. He had been held without trial for … Continue reading British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Ahmad: Admn 11 Jan 2012
An MOD ban on employing homosexuals was not Wednesbury unreasonable, even though it might be out of date. Pannick (counsel for the applicant, approved): ‘The court may not interfere with the exercise of an administrative discretion on substantive grounds save where the court is satisfied that the decision is unreasonable in the sense that it … Continue reading Regina v Ministry of Defence Ex Parte Smith and Others: QBD 7 Jun 1995
The applicant sought review of the authority’s decision not to offer her housing. She was subject to immigration control. She had been the victim of domestic violence and of abduction. Held: The authority could provide assistance under either Act, unless prohibited by statute. The limitation in the 1948 statute did apply to restrict the authority’s … Continue reading Regina (Khan) v Oxfordshire County Council: QBD 4 Oct 2002
Applications were made by foreign nationals, residing unlawfully in the UK, for leave to remain as the partners of British citizens with whom they had formed relationships during their unlawful residence, relying primarily on the duty imposed on the Secretary of State by the 1998 Act to act compatibly with the right to respect for … Continue reading Agyarko and Ikuga, Regina (on The Applications of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department: SC 22 Feb 2017
The court was asked as to the extent of the power of the IAT and Court of Appeal to reconsider a decision which it later appeared was based upon an error of fact, and the extent to which new evidence to demonstrate such an error could be admitted. Held: The view that appeals were restricted … Continue reading E v Secretary of State for the Home Department etc: CA 2 Feb 2004
The claimant said that the 1987 Regulations were invalid, in making invalid any claim for benefits by an asylum seeker who had not made his application exactly upon entry to the UK. Held: The appeals were allowed. Section 11 of the 1971 Act is a highly technical provision which for the purposes of immigration control … Continue reading Kola and Another v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: HL 28 Nov 2007
Whilst an asylum claim remained outstanding it was no possible for the Secretary of State to issue a deportation order after a decision to issue a deportation order. No requirement to leave could be imposed until the determination of the claim. Citations: Times 06-Jan-1999 Statutes: Asylum and Immigration Act 1993 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Immigration … Continue reading Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex P Sabusi: CA 6 Jan 1999
The Immigration Appeal Tribunal does not have discretion, whether implied or otherwise, to admit new or further evidence without notice having first been given. The Rules explicitly required advance notice to be given, and nor was it proper for the tribunal itself to introduce evidence. The absence of a rule against such admission of evidence … Continue reading Macharia v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 25 Nov 1999
The degree of protection from non-state persecution available to an asylum seeker is a relevant factor. Where that protection was inadequate for reasons not related to the nature of that persecution, that also was relevant. It affected the issues of whether persecution existed, whether the fear of it was well founded, and whether the fear … Continue reading Howarth v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 8 Dec 1999
The protection given to an asylum applicant is not lost by acts which might otherwise put his stay here in doubt, provided these were purely for the purpose, even if manipulative, of allowing him to stay. The test remains whether he has a well founded fear of persecution if he returned. Such behaviour would no … Continue reading Danian v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 9 Nov 1999
The fact that an asylum seeker might not refrain from activities which would attract persecution if he was returned to his country of origin, was not fatal to his application for asylum. There is only one question to be asked: whether, if returned, he would face a serious risk of persecution. The option of internal … Continue reading Ahmed (Iftikhar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 8 Dec 1999
Administrative Discretion to be Used Reasonably The applicant challenged the manner of decision making as to the conditions which had been attached to its licence to open the cinema on Sundays. It had not been allowed to admit children under 15 years of age. The statute provided no appeal procedure, and the applicant sought a … Continue reading Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation: CA 10 Nov 1947
The respondent introduced rules imposing fixed and penalties on HGV drivers coming into the UK who were found to have stowaway illegal entrants. The operators sought judicial review. Held: The penalty was in the character of a criminal penalty, not a civil one as proposed by the Secretary of State. The opportunities to challenge the … Continue reading International Transport Roth GmbH and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD 5 Dec 2001
The prisoner challenged the decision to place him in segregation under Prison Rule 43. Under rule 43(1) the initial power to segregate was given to ‘the governor’. The case arose from the fact that the governor of one prison had purported to authorise the segregation of a prisoner on his arrival at another prison to … Continue reading Regina v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison, Ex parte Hague, Weldon v Home Office: HL 24 Jul 1991
The airline complained of the imposition on it of liability carrying passengers without an entry visa. He had produced a residence card for Austria. The appeal failed. Under the Directive, a valid card must bear the words ‘Residence card of a family member of a Union citizen’ or a translated version. A card of the … Continue reading Ryanair Ltd v Secretary of State for The Home Department: CA 24 Apr 2018
Challenges to decisions of the Secretary of State as to a decision under section 10 of the the 1999 Act to remove the Claimant from the United Kingdom and which accords to the Claimant only an out-of-country right of appeal; a decision to detain him pending his removal, and a decision consequential upon the section … Continue reading Khan, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department: Admn 23 Jul 2014
A renewed application brought out of time for permission to seek judicial review of decisions of the Secretary of State 1) to decline to treat further material put before him in the case as a fresh claim to asylum and 2) to decline to refer the applicant’s case to a special adjudicator. Citations: [1999] EWCA … Continue reading Regina and Secretary of State for Home Department ex parte Manneh: CA 21 Jul 1999