SK (Zimbabwe) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

Abstract

Aliens — Asylum applicant — Determination of refugee status — Exclusion from refugee status if serious reasons for considering persons have committed international crime — Standard of proof — “Serious reasons for considering” — International criminal law — Crimes against humanity — “Other inhumane acts” — “Similar character” of “other inhumane acts” to individually defined crimes against humanity — Great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health

Treaties — Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Article 1F(a) — Exclusion from refugee status if serious reasons for considering persons have committed an international crime — Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998 — Article 7(1) — Crimes against humanity

International criminal law — Crimes against humanity — Other inhumane acts of a similar character — Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998 — Article 7(1) — Whether serious reasons for considering asylum applicant complicit in inhumane acts of similar character to crimes against humanity — Whether falling within Article 1F(a) of Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Whether applicant excluded from refugee status — The law of England