Case Law

Includes: Joint Partially Dissenting Opinion of Judge Shahabudeenn and Juge Schomburg; and Partially Dissenting Opinion of Judge Schomburg on the Interpretation of the Right to be Informed.

21 May 2007 | Judicial Body: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Crimes against humanity - Criminal justice - Genocide - Tutsis - Witnesses | Countries: Rwanda

15 May 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rejected asylum-seekers - Withdrawal of nationality - Witnesses | Countries: New Zealand - Zimbabwe

27 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Grounds for persecution - Shia - Witnesses | Countries: Kuwait - New Zealand

Application for judicial review.

27 March 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Falun Gong - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Witnesses | Countries: Australia - China

26 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion - Right to education - Witnesses | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

Appeal judgment on allegations of contempt relating to Prosecutor v. Blaskic (Case No. IT-95-14).

15 March 2007 | Judicial Body: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) | Topic(s): Witnesses | Countries: Croatia

14 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Christian - Credibility assessment - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Well-founded fear of persecution - Witnesses | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

7 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Benefit of the doubt - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Right to employment - Right to health - Roma - Witnesses | Countries: New Zealand - Slovakia

Hearing dates : 15-16 January 2007.

6 March 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Involuntary repatriation - Rejected asylum-seekers - Witnesses | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Zimbabwe

Includes: Separate Opinion of Judge Schomburg; and Partilly Dissenting Opinion of Judge Güney.

16 January 2007 | Judicial Body: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) | Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Genocide - Tutsis - Witnesses | Countries: Rwanda