UKSC refuses Rwanda Permission to Appeal application

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The UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has refused a Permission to Appeal application that was received in the R (NSK (Iraq)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department case. The applicant wished to appeal on the ground that the Court of Appeal ‘erred in law in holding that the judge was entitled…to proceed on the assumption that the Government of Rwanda would comply with the assurances provided in the memorandum of understanding’. The reasons for refusal, articulated by Lord Reed, were that the UKSC was not persuaded that the Court committed such an error, did not hold that the judge was entitled to assume that the Government would comply with the memorandum, and the judge did not make such an assumption.