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03 January 2008
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Immigration - leave to enter - refugee

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R (on the application of Saber) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] UKHL 57, [2007] All ER (D) 169 (Dec)

 

House of Lords

Lord Bingham, Lord Hope, Lord Rodger, Baroness Hale and Lord Brown  

12 December 2007

 

Mungo Bovey QC and Simon Collins (instructed by Drummond Millar LLP) for the appellant.

Ailsa Carmichael (instructed by the Office of the Solicitor to the Advocate General for ) for the secretary of state.

 

The current situation in the relevant country will always be relevant to the question whether a per­son’s removal from the will be contrary to its international obligation.

 

The appellant was a Kurdish citizen of . He entered the in July 2000 and claimed asy­lum. At that time, was still ruled by Saddam Hussein. A Kurdish autonomous region existed in , but relations between the two main Kurd­ish political factions

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