Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - English and Wales Court of Appeal

Date: 06/24/2009

Subject: The Court interprets, in the light of the ECHR’s jurisprudence, art. 15 of the Qualification Directive -document considered to be integral part of the European system of the right to asylum- concerning the hypothesis of “serious damage”, which can bring to a subsidiary protection of the state of asylum.

Parties: No.1 QD (IRAQ) c/ Secretary of State of Home Department

Original language: English

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Death penalty - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Art. 4 Torture - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments

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