Scottish Human Rights Law Group

This was a conjoined appeal by O, a Sudanese national, and M, a Ugandan national, following decisions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) dismissing their asylum appeals.   Both claimed asylum based on their homosexuality, it being an offence under national law in both their home states. 

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K, an asylum seeker who was a Sierra Leone national sought asylum on the grounds that she was at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) if she returned to Sierra Leone and that removal would prejudice her family life, contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8 .  

P’s application for judicial review of the decision of the secretary of state to deport P and state that P’s human rights claim was clearly unfounded was granted.  The court held that the issue for determination was whether developments in Sri Lanka since the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) decision gave P’s claim some real prospect of success. 

X, a Nigerian national, applied for leave to remain in the UK on human rights grounds.  The secretary of state refused and X appealed to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT).