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- Ireland· 2010
Ireland - High Court, 23 November 2010, S & Anor v Refugee Applications Commissioner & Anor 2010 IEHC 421
EDAL summary. This case concerned a decision of the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner to refuse to process the asylum applications of two nationals of Azerbaijan, with refugee status in Poland. The ap...
refugeeasylum - Ireland· 2010
Ireland - High Court, 28 September 2010, R.M.K. (DRC) v Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 2010 IEHC 367
EDAL summary. This case concerned the consideration of expert medical evidence by asylum decision makers and the link with the assessment of credibility. The Court found that the Refugee Appeals Tribunal failed ade...
refugeeasylum - Ireland· 2010
Ireland - High Court, 5 February 2010, S.O. (a minor) v Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2010] IEHC 151
EDAL summary. This case concerned the treatment of evidence from unaccompanied minors. The applicant was an unaccompanied minor from Afghanistan. He claimed asylum on the basis of a fear of persecution both by the...
refugeeasylum - France· 2010
France - Council of State, 23 July 2010, Amnesty International France and others, n° 336034
EDAL summary. Partial quashing of the list of safe countries of origin: Armenia, Madagascar, Turkey and Mali (women only) removed from the list
refugeeasylum - France· 2010
France - Council of State, 16 June 2010, Ms. A., n°340250
EDAL summary. French legislative provisions concerning the non suspensive effect of the judicial remedy under the accelerated procedure are not manifestly incompatible with the Asylum Procedures Directive and the R...
refugeeasylum - Sweden· 2010
Sweden - Migration Court of Appeal, 6 September 2010, UM 8098-09
EDAL summary. The right to family life can outweigh the ‘state responsibility’ criteria in the Dublin II Regulation. The Court held that the application for asylum should be processed in Sweden, in order to secure...
refugeeasylum - UK· 2010
UK - Court of Appeal, 18 June 2010, FA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 696
EDAL summary. In UK domestic law, if a person has made a claim for asylum but his claim has been rejected by the Secretary of State, but he has been given leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for over a y...
refugeeasylum - UK· 2010
UK - House of Lords, 11 October 2010, R (Bagdanavicius) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (UKHL) [2005] UKHL 38
EDAL summary. The House of Lords confirmed that in addition to establishing a real risk of harm, the applicant would also have to show that their state has failed to provide reasonable protection.
refugeeasylum - UK· 2010
UK - Upper Tribunal, 11 November 2010, AW (sufficiency of protection) Pakistan [2011] UKUT 31(IAC)
EDAL summary. In assessing state protection, a judge must look, notwithstanding a general sufficiency of protection in a country, to the individual circumstances of the applicant. In assessing whether an appellant’...
refugeeasylum - France· 2010
France - Council of State, 10 December 2010, Cimade and others, n° 326704
EDAL summary. The transposition of the Asylum Procedures Directive (APD) in French legislation is incomplete on certain aspects (provision of information to applicants for asylum; access to the report of the person...
refugeeasylum - France· 2010
France - Council of State, 7 April 2010, Mr. B., n°319840
EDAL summary. Before applying the exclusion clause in a case of complicity in an honour killing, the Court should inquire whether, on the one hand family constraint might have lowered the free will of the applicant...
refugeeasylum - France· 2010
France - Council of State, 14 June 2010, OFPRA c/ M. A., n°323669
EDAL summary. The involvement in a State regular police force does not constitute, in itself, the expression of political opinions or the membership of a particular social group.
refugeeasylum - UK· 2010
UK - Court of Appeal, 25 February 2010, MK (Iran), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 115
EDAL summary. No liability in damages in EU Law under Art 16(1)(b) of the Dublin Regulation arose from the failure to promptly examine an application for asylum where the United Kingdom accepted responsibility for...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 28 July 2009, Miss D., n°632210/08016675
EDAL summary. In countries where there is a high prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM), persons who have demonstrated that they oppose this practice have thus infringed the customary norms of their country...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - Council of State, 3 July 2009, Ofpra vs. Mr. A., n°320295
EDAL summary. The requirement of an individualisation of the threat to the life or person of an applicant for subsidiary protection is inversely proportional to the degree of indiscriminate violence which character...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 7 July 2009, Mr. C., n°634565
EDAL summary. Homosexuals in Tunisia, even those that do not proclaim or overtly demonstrate their sexual orientation, can be considered as constituting a specific and sufficiently identifiable whole so as to form...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 6 July 2009, Ms. D., n°635611/08016081
EDAL summary. A woman having undergone female genital mutilation FGM, who benefitted from reconstructive surgery in France, an act considered as an infringement of Guinean customs despite its official ban, must be...
refugeeasylum - Hungary· 2009
Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 2 July 2009, K.A.F v. Office of Immigration and Nationality, 15.K.30.401/2009/12
EDAL summary. The case concerned an appeal against a refusal to grant refugee status on the grounds that the applicant lacked credibility as the country of origin information (COI) submitted by the applicant was no...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 9 June 2009, Mr. H., n°639474/08019905
EDAL summary. The situation which prevails today in Mogadishu must be seen as a situation of generalised violence resulting from a situation of internal armed conflict. Its intensity is sufficient to consider that...
refugeeasylum - Hungary· 2009
Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 15 October 2009, I.A.Z. v. Office of Immigration and Nationality, 21.K.31555/2009/6
EDAL summary. The decision of the asylum authority was annulled on the basis that there was insufficient evidence that an internal protection alternative existed.
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