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International Journal of Refugee Law 2009 21(3):612-644; doi:10.1093/ijrl/eep022
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Case Law

QD & AH (Iraq) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)

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Neutral Citation Number: [2009] EWCA Civ 620

Case No: 1. C5/2008/1706 & No. 2. C5/2009/0251

in the Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal (Civil Division), on appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal No1. AA/09525/2007, No.2 AA/03993/2007

Date: 24/06/2009

Before: Lord Justice Sedley, Lord Justice Longmore and Lord Justice Maurice Kay

Between:

No. 1 QD (Iraq) (Appellant) and Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)

No. 2 AH (Iraq) (Appellant) and Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Intervener)

Mr Raza Husain and Ms Samantha Knights (instructed by Messrs Bhatt Murphy) for Appellant No.1

Mr Simon Cox and Ms Samantha Knights (instructed by Refugee & Migrant Justice) for Appellant No.2

Mr Pushpinder Saini QC and Mr Deok-Joo Rhee (instructed by Treasury Solicitor) for the Respondent

Mr Michael Fordham QC and Mr Tom Hickman (instructed by Baker & McKenzie LLP) for the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Judgment
 
Lord Justice Sedley:
The 2004 Qualification Directive
International humanitarian law
Articles 2(e) and 15(c)
Elgafaji v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie
"individual threat" and "indiscriminate violence"
"a risk" of "a ... threat"
"armed conflict"
Disposal

   ANNEXE
 
QD (Iraq) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
UNHCR mandate and position in relation to international protection
Subsidiary Protection Status
The object and context of Article 15(c)
The context of Article 15(c)
Individual threat
Internal Armed Conflict
Indiscriminate violence
Real risk of a threat of harm to life or person
Country condition update: Iraq

   Annexure 2: "Armed Conflict" in IHL
 
Common Article 3
Additional Protocol II
Statute of the ICC
Relevance to the Qualification Directive

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