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Immigration – Asylum. Court of Session: Dismissing a judicial review petition in which a failed Namibian asylum seeker challenged a decision to certify his asylum claim so as to deny a right of appeal, the court rejected contentions that the asylum claim should have been treated as a 'fresh claim' application, that there was no proper basis for finding that there was 'no satisfactory reason' for the petitioner not having raised the asylum matter previously, and that there was a failure to have regard to all relevant factors in making the certification decision.
Immigration – Asylum. Court of Session: Dismissing a judicial review petition in which a failed Namibian asylum seeker challenged a decision to certify his asylum claim so as to deny a right of appeal, the court rejected contentions that the asylum claim should have been treated as a 'fresh claim' application, that there was no proper basis for finding that there was 'no satisfactory reason' for the petitioner not having raised the asylum matter previously, and that there was a failure to have regard to all relevant factors in making the certification decision.
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