Introduction
1. Each member of the panel has contributed to this decision. The appeal comes before us by order of Davis LJ sealed on the 25 October 2012, who remitted it: “ … for reconsideration pursuant to paragraph 12 of schedule 4 to the Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010 and section 14 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007” .
2. This case has been identified to give country guidance on Iraq in light of circumstances in that country that have arisen since the decision in
- Introduction
- Iraq
- ) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
- The Evidence – A Summary
- Written Evidence of Dr Fatah
- Oral Evidence of Dr Fatah
- MK (documents – relocation)
- Amnesty International
- Home Office Country Information
- UNHCR’s position paper
- Existing Country Guidance
- HF (
- ) and others
- The Submissions – A Summary
- Appellant’s skeleton argument
- Appellant’s oral submissions
- Respondent’s skeleton argument
- Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive
- Legal Framework
- MOJ & Ors (return to Mogadishu) Somalia
- Elgafaji v Staatssecretaris van Justitie
- Diakite v Commissaire general aux refugies
- Elgafaji
- Diakite,
- HM and others (Article 15(c) Iraq
- HM (Iraq)
- Article 15(c) - Discussion and Conclusions
- AK (Article 15(c)) Afghanistan
- Iraqi Kurdish Region (IKR)
- Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dahuk
- The Southern Governorates – Basra, Kerbala, Najaf, Muthana, Thi-Qar, Missan, Qadissiya and Wassit
- Baghdad City
- Internal relocation
- Legal Framework
- Januzi v Secretary of State for the Home Department
- AH (Sudan) & others (FC)
- Places of Return
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- HF (Iraq
- I accept, as Mr Fordham submits, that it would be necessary for the court to consider whether the appellants would be at risk on return if their return were feasible, but I do not accept that the Tribunal has to ask itself the hypothetical question of what would happen on return if that is simply not possible for one reason or another
- INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE IN IRAQ: ARTICLE 15(C) OF THE QUALIFICATION DIRECTIVE
- Secretary of State for the Home Department
- DOCUMENTATION AND FEASIBILITY OF RETURN (excluding IKR)
- HF (Iraq) and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
- POSITION ON DOCUMENTATION WHERE RETURN IS FEASIBLE
- IRAQI KURDISH REGION
- F. EXISTING COUNTRY GUIDANCE DECISIONS
- The Appellant’s Case
- Documents before the Upper Tribunal