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Council had no duty to provide accommodation to failed asylum seeker

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • December 10 2010

In the case of L v Westminster City Council, L, who was an Iranian national and failed asylum seeker, applied for judicial review of the decision of Westminster City Council (WCC) that it did not need to provide him with accommodation under section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (the Act

Asylum seeker argues that to return to Zimbabwe, where she will be denied medical treatment, breaches her human rights

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 16 2011

In the case of FM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2011) an asylum seeker, M, claimed asylum on the basis that she, as an AIDS sufferer, could not obtain medical treatment for her condition if returned to Zimbabwe as the anti-retroviral treatment required was only available to individuals who supported the leading Zanu (PF) party