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Supreme Court considers medical evidence of asylum seeker’s torture (KV (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department)

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Published on: 11 March 2019

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What are the practical implications of the judgment?
What was the background?
What did the Supreme Court decide?

Article summary

Immigration analysis: Colin Yeo, barrister at Garden Court Chambers, examines the Supreme Court’s decision in KV (Sri Lanka) v SSHD to allow an asylum seeker’s appeal against a finding that—despite a medical expert’s evidence to the contrary—the scars on the appellant’s body were inflicted on him by another person at his request and were not caused, as he claimed, by torture inflicted on him by Sri Lankan Government forces.

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