* School of Law, University of Manchester. 1 SW v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Adjudicator’s questions) Somalia [2005] UKIAT00037, para. 20. The Immigration Appeal Tribunal, the independent judicial tribunal in the UK with responsibility for determining appeals against initial asylum decisions of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, was renamed as the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in April 2005. See further R. Thomas, “Evaluating Tribunal Adjudication: Administrative Justice and Asylum Appeals”, Legal Studies 25/3 (2005) pp. 462–498. Most, though not all, Tribunal determinations referred to below may be accessed from its website  . 2 C. Blake, “Judging Asylum and Immigration Claims: The Human Rights Act and the Refugee Convention”, Public Money & Management 21/3 (2001) pp. 25, 27. Assessing the Credibility of Asylum Claims: EU and UK Approaches Examined