Case Law

Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.

1951 Refugee Convention 2
1969 OAU Convention 1
Access to procedures 14
Administrative law 2
Airports 1
Apartheid 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 13
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-seekers 2
Border controls 3
Burden of proof 2
Cessation clauses 1
Changes of circumstances in home country 1
Children's rights 1
Children-at-risk 1
Christian 1
Confidentiality 1
Constitutional law 5
Convention refugee 1
Country of origin information (COI) 11
Credibility assessment 4
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 6
Darod 2
Death penalty 2
Denial of refugee status 1
Deportation / Forcible return 15
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
Domestic violence 5
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 1
Eritreans 1
Ethiopians 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 3
Exclusion clauses 1
Expedited procedures 3
Extradition 2
Forced marriage 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
Freedom of expression 3
Freedom of speech 2
Gender-based persecution 1
Grounds for persecution 1
HIV and AIDS 3
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 4
IDP camps 1
Illegal entry 4
Immigration Detention 17
Immigration law 11
Internal armed conflict 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
Jurisdiction 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
Livelihoods 1
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 6
Mental health 1
Migrants 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
Multiple nationality 1
National security / Public order 1
Non-refoulement 3
Non-state agents of persecution 11
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 1
Passports 2
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 15
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
Political groups 1
Political parties 3
Pre-entry procedures 1
Proof of nationality 1
Public health 1
Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
Reception 7
Refoulement 3
Refugee / Asylum law 17
Refugee camps 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 8
Refugees 3
Registration 7
Rejected asylum-seekers 4
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
Resettlement 1
Residence permits / Residency 4
Right to education 1
Right to employment 9
Right to family life 4
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 19
SGBV 8
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 1
Sexual and reproductive rights 1
Social group discrimination 1
Social group persecution 12
Standard of proof 1
State protection 8
Terrorism 2
Tigreans 1
Torture 1
Travel documents 1
Well-founded fear of persecution 3
Witchcraft 1
Women-at-risk 2
Work permits 3
Zulus 1

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Radjabu v. The Chairperson of the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs 4 September 2014 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - South Africa
South African Human Rights Commission and 40 others v. Minister of Home Affairs and 4 others 28 August 2014 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Immigration Detention - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: South Africa
FAM v. Minister of Home Affairs et al. 26 August 2014 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Burden of proof - Eritreans - Ethiopians - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - SGBV - Tigreans \| Countries: Eritrea - Ethiopia - South Africa
Director-General: Home Affairs v Dekoba 28 May 2014 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal \| Topic(s): Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - South Africa
X v. Canada 2 January 2014 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Topic(s): Persecution based on political opinion - Political groups \| Countries: Canada - South Africa - Zimbabwe
Harerimana v. the Chairperson of the Refugee Appeal Board and Others 11 December 2013 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): 1969 OAU Convention - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Burundi - South Africa
Mubala v. the Chairperson of the Standing Committee 8 November 2013 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - South Africa
Minister of Home Affairs v Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town (735/12 & 360/13) 27 September 2013 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal \| Countries: South Africa
Mail and Guardian Media Limited and others v. M J Chipu N.O. (Chairperson of the Refugee Appeal Board) and others 27 September 2013 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Constitutional Court \| Topic(s): Confidentiality - Freedom of expression - Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Czech Republic - South Africa
Somali Association of South Africa and others v. Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism 19 September 2013 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Economic, social and cultural rights - Right to employment \| Countries: South Africa

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