Information publicly available on the internet - 'Digital Open Source Information'

 

Commentary

Although this is an immigration and asylum case, in which country experts often provide evidence from a variety of sources about conditions in the applicant’s home country, it includes importance advice for all experts about the use of information on the internet.

Learning points

• An Appellant's account cannot be taken at face value when the Tribunal's decisions contain preserved findings of fact to the contrary and no new evidence has been submitted by the Appellant since then.

• See ‘Judges’ recommendations’ below

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