On 30 September 2020, the CJEU answered the preliminary request for an interpretation of Articles 5 and 13 of the Return Directive (2008/115/EC) made in the proceedings between LM and the Public Centre for Social Welfare (CPAS).
On 28 September 2020, the UK Court of Appeal rejected an attempt by the Home Office to overturn a High Court order to bring an asylum applicant, who had been removed under the earlier declared ‘unlawful’ Detained Fast Track (DFT) system, back to the UK and agreed with the applicant that the period succeeding her unlawful immigrati
On 25 September 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (BVerfG) overturned the Administrative Court (VG) of Greifswald’s decision to reject the appeal of a Mauritanian woman who alleged a continuation of slavery if returned to her country of origin.
Y.B. v. Greece (Application no. 10904/20): the case concerns the living conditions of an applicant who was at an advanced stage of pregnancy in the camp near Thessaloniki, to where she was transferred from Samos.
On 22 September 2020, the French Administrative Tribunal of Lille ruled that there was no urgency to suspend the execution of the Pas-de-Calais Prefect’s decree (Arrêté) of 10 September 2020, which prohibits the distribution of free drinks and food products in certain parts of the city center of Calais to prevent health risks and
On 18 September the Higher Administrative Court from Lower Saxony rejected an appeal against the judgment of an Administrative Court that had annulled the decision of the German authorities to reject an Iraqi national’s asylum application as inadmissible and order his deportation to Sweden.
Sahiti v. Belgium (application nr. 24421/20). The case concerns a Kosovar national who suffers from severe chronic post-traumatic anxiety psychoneurosis and whose regularization applications have been rejected by the Belgian authorities. The applicant complains that his deportation to Kosovo would entail a risk of inhuman and degrading treatment, in the sense of Article 3 ECHR, due to the lack of availability and accessibility of the required medical follow-up.
