Case Law

29 March 2012 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law - Denial of nationality - National security / Public order - Right to a nationality - Statelessness - Statelessness Determination Procedures - Terrorism - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

13 February 2012 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Denial of nationality | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

25 January 2012 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Denial of nationality - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Statelessness | Countries: Australia - Kuwait

16 November 2011 | Judicial Body: France: Cour nationale du droit d'asile | Topic(s): Denial of nationality - Proof of nationality - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Armenia - Azerbaijan - France - Russian Federation

11 October 2011 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law - Denial of nationality - Multiple nationality - Proof of nationality - Right to a nationality | Countries: Malta

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia

16 December 2010 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Countries: Colombia

The Court, declaring enforceable the expression 'mediante tratados internacionales vigentes', helds that Latin American and Caribbean nationals born in Colombia may obtain Colombian citizenship on the basis of different forms of reciprocity.

2 December 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Countries: Colombia

7 October 2008 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Countries: Colombia

Séance du 26 mai 2008; Lecture du 27 juin 2008.

27 June 2008 | Judicial Body: France: Conseil d'Etat | Topic(s): Denial of nationality - Freedom of religion - Women's rights | Countries: France - Morocco