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Immigration

27 July 2012
Issue: 7524 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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SG (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; OR (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 940, [2012] All ER (D) 146 (Jul)

In future, when a country guidance case was the subject of an application to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal, the Civil Appeals Office would seek to ensure that it was dealt with expeditiously. The application would not be referred to a Lord Justice for consideration on the papers. It would be listed as soon as practicable before one or more Lord Justices as an oral application for permission to appeal, on notice to the respondent. If permission was granted, the court would endeavour to make clear whether it is the whole of the guidance which would be reviewed on the hearing of the substantive appeal or only part of it. If the latter, the court would identify which part or parts, as was done by Carnwath LJ in PO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] All ER (D) 240 (Feb), at [58]. That should assist the tribunals and practitioners in relation

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