R (on the application of Oppilamani) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Publisher Citation:	[2004] All ER (D) 252 (Feb)
Court:	Administrative Court
Judge:	Charles J
Representation	Jonathan Martin (instructed by Nag & Co) for the claimant.
	Tim Eicke (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State.
Judgment Dates:	16 February 2004

Catchwords

Immigration - Asylum - Certification of claim as manifestly unfounded - Reasonableness of certification - s 94.

The Case

In the circumstances of the case, in certifying the claimant's asylum application as manifestly unfounded, it had been reasonable of the Secretary of State to conclude that, taken at its highest, the claimant's case based on insufficiency of state protection in Sri Lanka from Tamil separatist forces could not succeed.

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