The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 1015
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ISLAM Appellant and SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT Respondent
REGINA v. IMMIGRATION APPEAL TRIBUNAL and Another, Ex parte SHAH
[CONSOLIDATED APPEALS]
[On appeal from Reg. v. Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another, Ex parte Shah]
1999 Feb. 8,
9,
10;
March 25
March 25
Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hutton and Lord Millett
Immigration
— Limited leave to enter
— Application for asylum
— Pakistani women accused of adultery having well founded fear of persecution in country of origin
— Whether members of “particular social group”
— Whether refugees entitled to asylum
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Convention and Protocol relating to Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd. 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd. 3906), art. 1A(2)