United Kingdom: HIV status,psychiatric problems of asylum seeker did not stop removal

In November 2002, the High Court of Justice rejected an application for judicial review of a decision to remove an Ivoirian asylum seeker to France, despite her HIV status, tuberculosis, psychiatric condition, and attempted suicides. The Court argued that removal to France would not necessarily result in a return to Ivory Coast or in poorer health care.     

United Kingdom: HIV-positive asylum seeker denied judicial review of removal decision

The High Court of Justice had dismissed an application for a judicial review of a decision by immigration officials not to grant the applicant leave to remain in the UK on the basis of her HIV status. In December 2002, the Court of Appeal denied the applicant permission to appeal the High Court's decision, reasoning that an appeal under section 65 of the Immigration and Asylum Act, already initiated, would be more appropriate and advantageous.     

Social Networks and Factor Markets: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia

We investigate the role of an indigenous social network in Ethiopia, the iddir, in facilitating factor market transactions among smallholder farmers. We use detailed longitudinal household survey data and employ fixed effects estimation approaches to identify the effect of iddir membership on factor market transactions among farmers. We find that joining an iddir network improves households’ access to land, labour and credit transactions. Our findings also hint that iddir networks may crowd-out borrowing from local moneylenders (locally referred as ‘Arata Abedari’), a relatively expensive credit source. These results suggest that non-market institutions can play crucial roles in facilitating market transactions.     

United Kingdom: denying children's milk allowance to HIV-positive mother seeking asylum is discriminatory

In July 2002, the High Court of Justice found that, in denying the milk allowance, the Home Office had failed to realize the real risk that the mother might breastfeed her daughter and that the daughter might be infected with HIV. The Court also ruled that the Home Office's action was discriminatory under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.