BJ v Secretary of State for the Home Department: AS/08/06/17777

Asylum Support Tribunal decision of Judge Verity Smith on 18 June 2008.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and First-tier Tribunal (Asylum Support)
• Published: 8 February 2017

• Category: Section 95 (support for asylum seekers)
• Sub-category: Section 95 - jurisdiction
• Judges: Smith, SV
• Landmark: Not landmark
• Reference number: AS/08/06/17777
• Decision date: 18 June 2008

Refusal of Section 95 support on the grounds that the applicant was not an asylum seeker.

Finding (i) that the appellant was entitled to be treated as an asylum seeker by virtue of Section 94(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and the presence in his household of his four minor dependent children and (ii) that, on the appellant’s return to the UK from Sweden under the terms of the Dublin Convention, he had made a claim for asylum once more, that claim had been refused and he was now a failed asylum seeker who was entitled to be treated as an asylum seeker by virtue of Section 94(5).

Read the full decision in BJ v SOS AS_08_06_17777

Published 8 February 2017