The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2007] 1 AC 412
House of Lords
K
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Fornah
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2006] UKHL 46
2006 July 17,
18;
Oct 18
Oct 18
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Immigration
— Asylum
— “Particular social group”
— Claimants fearing persecution for reasons of family membership or female genital mutilation in countries of origin
— Whether members of “particular social group”
— Whether entitled to asylum
—
Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd 3906), art 1A(2)