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- UK· 2010
UK - Supreme Court, 22 November 2010, MA (Somalia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] UKSC 49
EDAL summary. Where an applicant's account is rejected as incredible, his or her claim will only succeed where there is undisputed objective evidence which goes a long way towards showing that the applicant is none...
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 - 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, 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, 14 January 2010, Obuseh v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2010] IEHC 93
EDAL summary. This case concerned the appropriate manner in which an application for subsidiary protection is to be decided where there may be at least an implicit claim of a “serious and individual threat” to the...
refugeeasylum - Ireland· 2010
Ireland - High Court, 11 May 2010, S and Another v Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2010] IEHC 177
EDAL summary. This concerned a claim of persecution as conscientious objector and the use of previous decisions. The first applicant claimed that he faced persecution in Israel because he was a conscientious object...
refugeeasylum - Hungary· 2010
Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 8 April 2010, K.H. v. Office of Immigration and Nationality, 15.K.31.662/2009/16
EDAL summary. The Office of Immigration and Nationality (OIN) rejected an application for asylum and did not assess the risk of serious harm because the applicant was deemed not credible. The Metropolitan Court fou...
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 - Hungary· 2010
Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 28 December 2010, A.M. v. Office of Immigration and Nationality, 15.K.34.141/2009/12
EDAL summary. Country of origin information can verify a situation in which the risk of persecution can exceptionally be considered to be proved without substantiating the personal circumstances of the applicant. T...
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· 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, 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 - 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 - Ireland· 2009
Ireland - High Court, 4 December 2009, M.S.T. v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2009] IEHC 529
EDAL summary. This case concerned the interpretation of Article 4(4) of the Qualification Directive and the transposing Irish measure, which had added certain wording. The Court noted that the Directive left it ope...
refugeeasylum - Ireland· 2009
Ireland - High Court, 3 November 2009, D.T. v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2009] IEHC 482
EDAL summary. This case concerned the assessment of the option of internal relocation within Sierra Leone in the context of a threat from a family member. The Court found that, provided that regard has been had to...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 6 April 2009, Mr. K., n°616907
EDAL summary. While Kosovan legislation prohibits any discrimination based on sexual orientation since 2004, persons who publicly acknowledge their homosexuality and demonstrate it in their external behavior regula...
refugeeasylum - Ireland· 2009
Ireland - High Court, 15 October 2009, G.O.I v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform & Refugee Applications Commissioner [2009] IEHC 463
EDAL summary. This case concerned the interpretation of Article 4.3 of the Qualification Directive and the nature of the assessment of the facts and circumstances of a refugee application that should take place. Th...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - CNDA, 30 October 2009, M.P., n°640035/08020515
EDAL summary. The practices used by the authorities of a given country in order to exclude some citizens, members of a minority, from nationality can be considered as persecution since they are linked to one of the...
refugeeasylum - France· 2009
France - Council of State, 15 May 2009, Miss K., n°292564
EDAL summary. As soon as one persecution ground (in this case religion) exists and the other conditions for qualifying for refugee status are fulfilled, refugee status must be recognised rather than subsidiary prot...
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