Case summaries

  • My search
  • Country of applicant
    1
Reset
UK - House of Lords, 3 November 2005, Adam, R (on the application of) Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKHL 66
Country of applicant: Angola, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Sudan

The House of Lords considered whether refusal or deprivation of state support to destitute asylum applicants, who were by law prohibited from working, was sufficiently severe as to engage Art 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Date of decision: 03-11-2005