Case summaries
UK - Asylum & Immigration Tribunal, 5 July 2005, SM (Section 8: Judge’s Process) Iran [2005] UKAIT 116
Country of applicant:
Iran
Keywords:
Assessment of facts and circumstances, Credibility assessment, Individual assessment, Relevant Facts
UK Legislation, which required a court to treat evidence in a particular way was not intended to affect the general process of deriving facts from evidence and in particular the principles that all evidence had to be evaluated in the round.
Date of decision:
05-07-2005
UK - Immigration Appeal Tribunal, 16 December 2004, HE (DRC - credibility and psychiatric reports) DRC [2004] UKIAT 00321
Country of applicant:
Congo (DRC)
Keywords:
Assessment of facts and circumstances, Credibility assessment, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports
The court identified the limitation of psychiatric evidence when adduced as corroboration of past facts.
Date of decision:
16-12-2004
ECtHR - T.I. v. The United Kingdom, Application No. 43844/98, Decision as to the Admissibility, 7 March 2000
Country of applicant:
Sri Lanka
Keywords:
Credibility assessment, Effective remedy (right to), Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manifestly unfounded application, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Personal circumstances of applicant, Procedural guarantees, Protection, Torture, Refugee Status, Membership of a particular social group, Real risk
The case involved a Sri Lankan asylum seeker whose application was rejected in Germany, and upon seeking asylum in the UK, was rejected on the basis of the Dublin Convention and that his application corresponded to Germany. The Court found no breach of a Convention obligation from the UK by its decision to remove him to Germany.
Date of decision:
07-03-2000