Category Archives: Yarl’s Wood IRC

Home Office loses appeal in Ugandan LGBT asylum case

PN (Uganda), R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1213 (28 September 2020)  The Court of Appeal has dismissed the SSHD’s appeal against Lewis J’s decision in PN v SSHD [2019] … Continue reading

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High Court orders asylum-seeker’s return to pursue appeal 

PN (Uganda) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 1616 (Admin) (24 June 2019) In these judicial review proceedings, brought by “PN”, Lewis J held that the dismissal of a Ugandan woman’s appeal against the refusal … Continue reading

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Supreme Court on Detention, Deportation and Mental Illness

R (O) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 19 (27 April 2016) Heaven knows: Yarl’s Wood IRC – the infamous British Gulag where pregnant women and children are locked up – may even make the likes … Continue reading

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Please don’t deport Brenda Namigadde

One would have to agree with the archbishop of Canterbury Dr Williams that the killing of Ugandan gay rights’s activist David Kato, who was murdered at his home in Mukono, Kampala after having won in court against a tabloid which … Continue reading

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