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Gholam-Shehni, R (on the application of) v IAT, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, October 12, 2000, [2000] EWHC Admin 400

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Case No CO/1317/99
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
QUEENS BENCH DIVISION
DIVISIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE COURT LIST.


Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date 12 Oct 2000

Before:

MR. JUSTICE GOLDRING

R E G I N A

-v-

IAT
Respondent

ex parte

GHOLAM-SHEHNI
Applicant

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MS. F. KRAUSE (Instructed by Messrs. Woolcombe Beer Watts) appeared on behalf of the Applicant.

MR. J. SWIFT (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) appeared on behalf of the Respondent.
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Judgment

As Approved by the Court
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The application
1. The applicant is 29. He was born in Iran. He entered the United Kingdom on 3 August 1994. He claimed asylum on 5 August 1994. The Secretary of State refused his claim in a letter dated 5 March 1997. His appeal to the Special Adjudicator was dismissed by a determination on 13 December 1998. Leave to appeal to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal was refused on 19 February 1999. The applicant seeks judicial review of that refusal. He does so by permission of the Court of Appeal (following a hearing at which the Respondents were not represented), applications for permission having previously been refused both on paper and at an oral hearing.

The Secretary of State's refusal
2. The basis of the application was set out in a long statement dated 20 September 1994. Its contents were summarised in the Secretary of State's refusal letter of 5 March 1997 (page 69). In paragraph 2, the Secretary of State stated that "The basis of your claim is that you suffered continuous harassment in Iran because of your own and your family's political beliefs. You claimed that yo...
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