So, has a High Court Judge really gone ahead and done what the Home Office has been wanting them to do these past months, ie indicate some sort of or indeed wholesale “departure ” from current country guidance AA (Article 15(c)) (Rev 1) Iraq CG [2015] UKUT 544 (IAC)?
Sir Ross Cranston sitting as a Judge of the High Court has stated in Amin, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 2417 (Admin) that “Kirkuk is no longer a contested area”.