EDAL case summaries
Country of Decision: Ireland
Country of Applicant: South Africa
Keywords: Accommodation centre, Actor of persecution or serious harm, Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Effective remedy (right to), Gender Based Persecution, Internal protection, Membership of a particular social group, Non-state actors/agents of persecution, Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Personal interview, Previous persecution, Procedural guarantees, Refugee Status, Safe country of origin, Subsidiary Protection, Well-founded fear
The Court granted permission to the Applicants to seek judicial review of the negative decision made in a written appeal (rather than an oral appeal) in an application for refugee status made by a South African one-parent family. The decision to allow a written appeal was based on the status of South Africa as a ‘safe country,’ and the appeal decision was based on personal credibility and the absence of a nexus to Convention grounds. The Applicants failed in their argument that the absence of an oral hearing may render the appeal decision unlawful by reference to the right to an effective...
Date: 18-12-2012
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