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International Journal of Refugee Law 2009 21(1):149-168; doi:10.1093/ijrl/een041
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Judicial Criteria for Assessing Country of Origin Information (COI): A Checklist

Paper for 7th Biennial IARLJ World Conference, Mexico City, 6-9 November 2006 COI-CG Working Party

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The COI-CG1 Working Party wishes to commend to all members of the Association the following ‘COI Judicial Checklist’ (see below). Although we hope this checklist and accompanying Explanatory Memorandum (see paras. 1-64) will be of general interest, its primary aim is to furnish a guide to judges2 in cases where they face having to assess Country of Origin Information (COI) in the context of deciding asylum or asylum-related appeals.

The Checklist is the result of 18 months of deliberations involving the efforts of a considerable number of people with knowledge in this area. The following are current members of the COI-CG Working Party: Hugo Storey (Rapporteur, UK), Bostjan Zalar (Deputy Rapporteur, Slovenia), Graham Davies (UK), Bernard Dawson (UK), Nigel Osborne (UK), John Barnes (UK), Dallal Stevens (UK), Anna Bengtsson (Sweden), Patrick Hurley (Ireland), Rory McCabe (Ireland), Vaclac Novotny (Czech Republic), Manoj Kumar Sinha (India), James Simeon (Canada), and Hannah Lily . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   COI Judicial Checklist
 
Relevance and adequacy of the Information
Source of the Information
Nature / Type of the Information
Prior Judicial Scrutiny

   COI Judicial Checklist: Explanatory Memorandum
 

   Part I
 
Relevance and adequacy of the Information
i) How relevant is the COI to the case in hand?
ii) Does the COI source adequately cover the relevant issue(s)?
iii) How current or temporally relevant is the COI presented?

   Part II
 
Sources of the Information
(iv) Is the COI material satisfactorily sourced?
v) Is the COI based on publicly available and accessible sources?
vi) Has the COI been prepared on an empirical basis using sound methodology?

   Part III
 
Nature/Type of the Information
vii) Does the COI exhibit impartiality and independence?
viii) Is the COI balanced and not overly selective?

   Part IV
 
Prior Judicial Scrutiny
ix) Has there been judicial scrutiny by other national courts of the COI in question?

   Conclusion
 

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