Regina (Nasseri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports

Posted August 3rd, 2007 in asylum, human rights, law reports, torture by sally

Asylum Act provision is incompatible

Regina (Nasseri) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

Queen’s Bench Division

“An absolute bar preventing the Secretary of State for the Home Department from considering whether certain countries would return asylum-seekers in contravention of their human rights was incompatible with the right to not be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

The Times, 3rd August 2007

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