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KN & Ors-v-Minister for Justice & Equality, MAM-v- Minister for Justice & Equality

19 June 2020 | Judicial Body: Ireland: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Derivative status - Family reunification | Countries: Ireland - Somalia

Case of Nur Ahmed and Others v. Ukraine

For these reasons, the court, unanimously: Decides to join the applications; Declares inadmissible: (i) the first and eighth applicants’ complaints that their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders did not comply with Article 5 § 1 of the Convention and (ii) the sixth, seventh and ninth applicants’ complaints that their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders prior to 10 August, 5 November and 22 May 2012 respectively did not comply with Article 5 § 1 of the Convention; Declares the remainder of the applications admissible; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of second to ninth applicants, on account of lack of records of their arrest and detention prior to the issuance of detention orders in respect of them; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of the second to fifth applicants on account of their detention under the domestic court’s detention orders in the absence of a decision ordering their expulsion; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention in respect of the sixth applicant on account of his detention from 10 August to 17 October 2012, in respect of the seventh applicant on account of his detention from 5 to 23 November and in respect of the ninth applicant on account of his detention from 22 May to 17 October 2012; Holds that there has been a violation of Article 5 § 4 of the Convention in respect of the first and the sixth to ninth applicants.

18 June 2020 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Immigration Detention | Countries: Somalia - Ukraine

Warda Osman Jasin v. Denmark

25 September 2015 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) | Countries: Denmark - Italy - Somalia

RB (Linguistic evidence - Sprakab) Somalia v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

10 September 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Bajuni - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

R (on the application of ZO (Somalia) and others) (Respondents) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant)

On appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales) [2009] EWCA Civ 442.

28 July 2010 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Fresh / New claim - Reception - Right to employment | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

R (on the application of Abdi) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

22 May 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Asylum-seekers - Crime prevention - Deportation / Forcible return - Immigration Detention | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

R (on the applications of ZO (Somalia) and MM (Burma)) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (on the application of DT (Eritrea)) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

On appeal from the High Court, Administrative Court: R (on the application of Min Min and Zahra Ali Omar) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 1604 (Admin); and Tekle v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 3064 (Admin). The judgment was subsequently appealed before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: [2010] UKSC 36.

20 May 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Reception - Regional instruments - Right to employment | Countries: Myanmar - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

N.X.Q. v. Refugee Applications Commissioner & Anor

Application for leave to apply for judicial review.

6 May 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Asylum-seekers | Countries: Ireland - Somalia

Abdi and Others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

The decision was subsequently appealed before the Court of Appeal: [2010] EWCA Civ 111.

19 December 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Criminal justice - Deportation / Forcible return - Immigration Detention - Refugees - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

R v. MMH

12 November 2008 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Criminal justice - False documents - Legal representation / Legal aid - Refugees | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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