Category: Immigration

D, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: CA 11 Oct 2004

Challenge was to Regulations which affect the position of nationals of certain States which had acceded to membership of the European Union
Maurice Kay LJ
[2004] EWCA Civ 1468
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England and Wales
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Cited – Zalewska v Department for Social Development HL 12-Nov-2008
(Northern Ireland) The claimant challenged the rules restricting payment of benefits to nationals from the 8 latest European Accession states to those with an unbroken 12 month working record. The applicant came from Poland and worked at two . .

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Updated: 03 September 2021; Ref: scu.276325

JM (Homosexuality: Risk) Uganda CG: AIT 11 Jun 2008

AIT Although there is legislation in Uganda which criminalises homosexual behaviour there is little, if any, objective evidence that such is in fact enforced. Notwithstanding a prevailing traditional and cultural disapproval of homosexuality, the evidence does not establish that in general there is persecution of homosexuality in Uganda.
[2008] UKIAT 00065
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England and Wales

Updated: 03 September 2021; Ref: scu.277820

MD (Judge’s Knowledge; Standard of English) Pakistan: AIT 12 Mar 2009

AIT 1. An Immigration Judge who believes that, in dealing with other cases, he has developed a specialised familiarity with a particular sort of evidence, that causes him to reach an adverse view of the genuineness of evidence produced to him, ought not to act on that view without giving the parties an opportunity to deal with the point.
2. An appellant may be able to make himself understood in written English statements produced in his own time without having the ability in English necessary to follow an advanced course dealing with abstract concepts.
[2009] UKAIT 00013
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England and Wales

Updated: 03 September 2021; Ref: scu.323718