Case No. UKUT-00414-(IAC)

Articles 1F and 33 of the Refugee Convention 23. Article 1F(b) and (c) of the Refugee Convention provides: “The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to any person with respect to whom there are serious reasons for considering that: […] (b) he has committed a serious non-political crime outside the country of refuge prior to his admission to that country as a refugee; (c) he has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” 24. The focus of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention is the exclusion from its scope of those persons who – like this applicant – engaged in certain conduct before seeking refuge in the host state. When engaged, Article 1F prevents the individual concerned from being recognised as a refugee. 25. Article 33 of the Refugee Convention provides: