Tag Archive for 'Age Assessment'

N.I.M.A.C.

By chief on 11/02/2011. 1 Comment

R (FZ) v LB Croydon [2011] EWCA Civ 59

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Not In My Admin Court

We have written before about age assessments for those who might be under 18 – see most recently our post on R (CJ) v Cardiff CC and, prior to that, our post on the Supreme Court decision in R (A) v Croydon (which remains our only post to take its title from a Rolf Harris chart topper).

The long and short of Croydon is that an assessment that a young person is over 18 may be challenged by JR in the Admin Court.

In FZ the applicant sought to do exactly that, but was refused … Read the full post

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Fake ID and ‘Just for Men’: High Ct Judges play ‘guess my age’

By J on 21/01/2011. 3 Comments

I suspect that – at some stage – many readers of this blog will have pretended to be older than they actually are, usually to obtain alcohol or to get into night-clubs for the purposes of obtaining more alcohol/meeting the opposite (or same) sex with the hope (often unfulfilled) of nookie. Oh the joys of youth. At a certain point though, we tend to start going the other way and suggesting that we are in fact younger than we actually are. With the ever increasing amounts of gray appearing in my hair, this is a feeling with which I can sympathise.

But, on a more serious note, ascertaining the age … Read the full post

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Age Assessment and Medical Reports

By NL on 11/05/2009. 0 Comments

Apologies for not getting this one out on Friday or over the weekend. It was on my list, but, frankly, the details of this were off my usual turf and it took an hour or several to digest and fit in place. So, only a day or so late…

A v London Borough of Croydon [2009] EWHC 939 (Admin) is a significant case in a long and convoluted saga. The issue is age assessment of unaccompanied asylum seekers who are or claim to be children (USAC), thereby falling under s.20 Children Act so that the Local Authority has the full duty to them.

The specific issue is the status of … Read the full post

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