12 Dec 2025
Leave was refused because the applicant failed to plead any arguable grounds showing that the TCAB erred in law or acted irrationally; the TCAB's factual conclusion that the risk was unsubstantiated and that internal relocation was viable was not demonstrated to be legally wrong or irrational.
30 Dec 2021
Leave was refused because the applicant failed to identify any reasonably arguable error of law, irrationality or procedural unfairness in the Director's or the Board's decisions; the Board's adverse credibility findings and reliance on COI were supported by the record and internal relocation was a reasonable alternative, so there was no prospect of success on judicial review.
1 Apr 2021
Leave to apply for judicial review was correctly refused because the applicant failed to identify any arguable error of law, procedural unfairness or irrationality in the Director's or Board's decisions; there was insufficient evidence of individual targeting by Boko Haram and internal relocation to southern Nigeria was a reasonable and safe alternative, so no realistic prospect of success on judicial review.
22 Feb 2019
Leave was refused because (1) an applicant cannot seek judicial review of the Director's screening decision absent exceptional circumstances given the statutory appeal to the Board, and (2) the applicant failed to plead substantive, particularised grounds or show a reasonable prospect of success against the Board's decision which reasonably found a private land dispute, no political persecution, injuries not amounting to torture, and internal relocation available.