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UK - Court of Appeal, 22 March 2011, DS (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 305

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Strategic issue

What was at stake

EDAL summary. The Court of Appeal concluded that the Tribunal must make a best interest of the child determination in considering an asylum appeal made by an unaccompanied minor. Further, that although the Secretar...

Key holding

What the court decided

The Court of Appeal decided that the Tribunal must make a best interest of the child determination in considering an asylum appeal made by an unaccompanied minor, and that the Secretary of State's duty to trace the applicant's family exists independently of the obligation to appropriately consider an asylum claim.

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