Current/Recent House of Lords Cases

There have been 36 decisions in the last 10 years, over a quarter (10) of which have been in the last 12 months.  The increased activity of the Appellate Committee in this area reflects a growing confidence in the use of the HRA 1998 to regularize the status of those whose asylum claims have failed and in regulating the removal of foreign nationals involved in criminal activity, as well as being the ultimate domestic arbiter of traditional claims under the Refugee Convention.

• Paper given by Naina Patel at Asylum Law Seminar, March 2009 doc