EDAL case summaries

The cases concerned two important issues: whether the processing of the refugee applications had been unlawfully accelerated or prioritised on the basis that the applicants were Nigerian, and whether the applicants were deprived of an effective remedy against the first instance determinations of the applications which was in compliance with Chapter V of the Procedures Directive. The Court found that Article 23(3) of the Procedures Directive permitted prioritisation/acceleration of any category of case and that the refugee appeals procedure in Ireland satisfied Article 39 of the Procedures...