Author: Laura Smith

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Laura Smith

Laura Smith is a solicitor and legal team supervisor at JCWI. She has worked extensively on asylum law and has particular expertise in asylum cases for persecuted political activists.

DH (Particular Social Group: Mental Health) Afghanistan [2020] UKUT 223 (IAC) is an important case for numerous reasons. It affirms the supremacy of the Refugee Convention 1951 over EU law by reference to the Convention’s object and purpose; it recognises for the first time in UK asylum law that a...

27th July 2020
BY Laura Smith
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