Case Law

The panel granted the Department of Homeland Security’s motion for a stay of the district court’s preliminary injunction in an action challenging the Migrant Protection Protocols.

7 May 2019 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Refoulement | Countries: United States of America

31 January 2019 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Expulsion | Countries: Georgia - Russian Federation

Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 Prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens - Collective expulsion of Georgian nationals by Russian authorities from October 2006 to January 2007: administrative practice in breach While every State had the right to establish its own immigration policy, problems with managing migration flows could not justify practices incompatible with the State’s obligations under the Convention. The expulsions of Georgian nationals during the period in question had not been carried out following, and on the basis of, a reasonable and objective examination of the particular case of each individual. This amounted to an administrative practice in breach of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4. Article 33 - Inter-State application - Collective expulsion of Georgian nationals by Russian authorities from October 2006 to January 2007 Several other violations found

3 July 2014 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Expulsion | Countries: Georgia - Russian Federation

9 April 2014 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Reception - Regional instruments | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

30 May 2013 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Topic(s): Access to procedures - Asylum policy - EU Qualification Directive - Effective remedy - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Bulgaria

13 January 2012 | Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Grounds for persecution - International protection - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Social group persecution - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Finland - Iran, Islamic Republic of

18 October 2011 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Countries: Bulgaria

On appeal from the Queen's Bench Administrative Court.

29 July 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Asylum policy - Expedited procedures - Immigration Detention | Countries: Jamaica - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland