However, in the domestic context its use has been focused
on asylum claims where it is applied by decision - makers when assessing medical evidence.
At the same time, applications to the Refugee Legal Service have fallen in line with the falling number
of asylum claims made in the jurisdiction.
The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility
in Asylum Claims Involving an Initial Omission of Sexual Assault
These areas included immigration (save
for asylum claims or work carried out for those in immigration detention); employment (except where there is a discrimination claim); education (except for Special Educational Needs work); welfare benefits (except for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and onwards); debt; clinical negligence for the majority of adults and children; and personal injury.
This has far - reaching consequences for
gay asylum claims, for example, in the United Kingdom, section 8 of the Asylum (Treatments of Claimants etc,) Act 2004 has been used to provide a statutory requirement for an adverse finding on credibility if there has been a delay in providing the basis of the claim relied upon.
This unexpected northward migration has overwhelmed Canada's system for
processing asylum claims, leading to the worst delays in years.
ZT made further submissions backed by fresh evidence, but these too were rejected by the home secretary, who refused to treat them as constituting a
fresh asylum claim attracting a right of appeal from within the UK.
It was however one year after X, Y and Z that the CJEU was called to provide guidance on evidentiary standards in
SOGI asylum claims in another case concerning three gay men seeking asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation, who were not deemed credible (Joined Cases C - 148 / 13 to C - 150 / 13, A, B and C v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie, 2 December 2014).
Freedom from Torture's Proving Torture report has highlighted the Home Office's failure to take proper account of expert medical evidence when
assessing asylum claims, regularly resulting in torture survivors like me being denied the protection we need.
The supervisory immigration judges will be able to devote full - time to moving cases, resulting in an increase of about 50 percent in the number of immigration judges
handling asylum claims, he said.
Somewhere between 60 and 72 inmates at the centre conducted a demonstration in the courtyard on Saturday night, in a protest against the use of fast - track detention to
decide asylum claims.
That requires European collaboration of the sort which the UK has persistently sabotaged, with fair, humane and
efficient asylum claim mechanisms in place at ports of entry and a processing system which, unlike the detained fast - track, is not considered unfair to the point of being unlawful.
It would be hugely positive, for example, for Labour to lead strongly on the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine's report published last week which examined
how asylum claims made on the grounds of sexual orientation are handled by the Home Office.
The case concerned three children who claimed asylum in the UK after having previously
lodged asylum claims in the Netherlands and Italy.
He has an active pro-bono practice litigating
immigration asylum claims, civil rights and Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, and has volunteered with the ACLU of Southern California, Bet Tzedek, and Public Counsel.
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asylum claims where appropriate.
Cyprus will
process asylum claim, but will not grant visas to allow family member to join an asylum seeker.
She later launched a
fresh asylum claim on the basis of new evidence, in the form of an expert report by a wound and scar specialist, Ms Kralj, which linked the various scars on her body to torture.
We received just three per cent
of asylum claims made by lone children across Europe last year.
The collection of forensic evidence of torture and the production of medico - legal reports for the purposes of proving torture
in asylum claims have been cornerstones of Freedom from Torture's work since our creation in 1985.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that
asylum claims will be resolved «efficiently and expeditiously» but that the asylum - seekers should seek it in the first safe country they reach, including Mexico.
Many fights happen between migrants, who are coming into Europe searching for better economic opportunities — and will likely see
their asylum claim rejected — and refugees, who are fleeing war and persecution and are almost guaranteed to have their asylum demand accepted.