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Singh, R (on the application of) v Immigration Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, July 26, 2000, [2000] EWHC Admin 376


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Case No: CO/488/2000

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
QUEEN'S BECH DIVISION
CROWN OFFICE


Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 26th July 2000
B e f o r e :


MRS JUSTICE SMITH



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Immigration Appeal Tribunal
ex parte
Parvitter Singh



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Mr A Underwood Appeared on behalf of the Respondent
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Judgment
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Mrs Justice Smith:

In this asylum case, the applicant Paviter Singh, who is an Indian national, seeks judicial review of the decision of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal (IAT) on 13th November 1999 when it refused leave to appeal against a decision of a Special Adjudicator dated 7th October 1999. The Special Adjudicator found that the applicant who is a Punjabi Sikh had a well-founded fear of persecution in the Punjab. However, he considered that it would not be unreasonable or unduly harsh for him to relocate elsewhere in India and rejected the his appeal from the Secretary of State's decision to refuse him refugee status.

Article 33(1) of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (the Convention) provides: No contracting state shall expel or return a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territorie...
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