Case Law

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

1951 Refugee Convention 79
Abduction 31
Access to procedures 4
Acehnese 1
Acts of persecution 2
Administrative law 4
Age discrimination 1
Agents of persecution 5
Ahmadis 18
Airports 1
Akan 1
Alawi 4
Alevis 5
Appeal / Right to appeal 14
Arabs 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 206
Armed forces / Military 9
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 24
Armenian 3
Arrival 2
Assyrians 5
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 8
Atheist / Agnostic 1
Baganda 1
Baha'i 2
Bail 1
Banyamulenge 1
Baptist 1
Bedoon 1
Bellah 1
Benefit of the doubt 1
Berber 1
Blood feuds 7
Buddhist 14
Burden of proof 1
Cancellation 1
Catholic 49
Ceasefire 1
Cessation clauses 8
Chakma 1
Chaldean 4
Changes of circumstances in home country 15
Child labour 1
Child prostitution 1
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 11
Children-at-risk 13
Chin 1
Chinese 12
Christian 191
Citizenship / Nationality law 4
Civil and political rights 3
Civil war 4
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
Combatants / Former combatants 3
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Complementary forms of protection 51
Confidentiality 1
Conflict situation 2
Constitutional law 5
Contemporary forms of slavery 3
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
Copts 15
Corruption 20
Country of origin information (COI) 306
Coup d'état 2
Credibility assessment 312
Crimes against humanity 7
Criminal justice 37
Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
Customary law 1
Darfuri 1
Death penalty 7
Democracy 3
Denial of nationality 1
Denial of refugee status 3
Deportation / Forcible return 19
Dera Sacha Sauda 4
Derivative status 10
Disappeared persons 2
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 113
Domestic violence 29
Drug trafficking 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 7
Effective protection 68
Effective remedy 4
Elections 5
Eritreans 2
Ethiopians 1
Evangelical 6
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 161
Exclusion clauses 6
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
Expulsion 11
Extradition 6
Extrajudicial executions 3
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 17
Falun Gong 94
Family law 2
Family reunification 4
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
Fijians 1
Flight by land, air or sea 17
Forced labour 10
Forced marriage 10
Forced relocation 1
Forced sterilization / Abortion 2
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 137
Freedom of expression 10
Freedom of movement 4
Freedom of religion 42
Freedom of speech 10
Fulani 1
Fur 2
Ga 1
Gang related violence 5
Gender discrimination 7
Gender-based persecution 15
Generalized violence 3
Grounds for persecution 49
HIV and AIDS 3
Habitual residence 3
Han 2
Harmful traditional practices 4
Hazara 43
Hindu 34
Honour killings 17
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 14
Huang Jiao 1
Hui 1
Human rights activists 11
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 5
Hungarians 1
Ibo 2
Illegal entry 2
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
Illegitimate children 7
Immigration Detention 16
Impunity 1
Inclusion clauses 2
Independence of judiciary 13
Indians 2
Internal armed conflict 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 150
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
International protection 3
Jehovah's Witness 19
Jew 2
Jurisdiction 15
Kachin 1
Karen 1
Kasaians 1
Kisii 1
Korani 1
Koreans 2
Kurd 26
Laws relating to religion 6
Legal representation / Legal aid 11
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 64
Livelihoods 3
Lorosae 1
Luo 2
Malinke / Mandingo 1
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Maronite 1
Mental harm 1
Mental health 36
Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
Methodist 2
Migrants 3
Military law 2
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 60
Minorities 19
Minority rights 6
Mohajirs 1
Montenegrin 1
Moor 1
Mormon 2
Multiple nationality 10
Muslim 53
National security / Public order 1
Naturalization 1
Ndebele 1
Non-refoulement 20
Non-state agents of persecution 249
Older persons 4
One-child policy / Family planning 19
Opposition 20
Oromo 8
Orthodox Christian 1
Palestinian 13
Pashtun 6
Passports 10
Peace agreements 1
Pentecostal 2
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 8
Persecution based on nationality 9
Persecution based on political opinion 673
Persecution of family members 97
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 60
Persons not in need of international protection 12
Persons with disabilities 7
Physical harm 11
Police 23
Political groups 35
Political parties 129
Political situation 6
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 16
Pre-entry procedures 1
Pre-trial detention 1
Presbyterian 1
Prison or detention conditions 6
Proof of nationality 8
Prosecution vs persecution 25
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protestant 1
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 8
Public health 8
Punjabis 3
Racial / Ethnic persecution 223
Reception 1
Refoulement 20
Refugee / Asylum law 11
Refugee camps 1
Refugee seamen 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 25
Refugees 10
Registration 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 16
Religious discrimination 75
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 535
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
Resettlement 1
Residence permits / Residency 9
Returnees 13
Right to education 20
Right to employment 42
Right to family life 12
Right to food 2
Right to health 5
Right to justice 3
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 3
Right to registration at birth 1
Rights of non-citizens 1
Rohingya (Arakanese) 6
Roma 6
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 103
Russians 2
Sabean Mandean 1
Safe country of origin 9
Safe third country 57
Salafi 3
Samoan 1
Scientologist 1
Security situation 17
Serb 2
Serious non-political crime 3
Seventh Day Adventist 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 37
Sexual and reproductive rights 8
Shamanism 1
Shan 1
Sharia law 7
Shia 77
Sikh 14
Sindhis 2
Single heads of household 8
Single procedure 1
Sinhalese 5
Social group discrimination 49
Social group persecution 393
Somalis 1
Soyot 1
Standard of proof 5
State protection 132
Statelessness 36
Statelessness Determination Procedures 2
Sunni 26
Sur place persecution 20
Tajik 4
Tamil 55
Taoist 1
Temporary admission 7
Temporary protection 12
Terrorism 5
Threats / Intimidation 15
Tibetan 2
Torture 5
Trafficking in persons 6
Transgression of social / cultural norms 24
Travel documents 1
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
Uighur 8
Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
Unlawful departure 9
Uzbek 1
Visas 74
Voluntary repatriation 1
War crimes 5
Well-founded fear of persecution 52
Widowed persons 2
Witnesses 29
Women's rights 3
Women-at-risk 38
Yoruba 2
Zoroastrian 1

1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1

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FER17 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2019] FCAFC 106 whether the meaning of “a national” as appears in the definition of “receiving country” in s 5 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) applies to a person who does not have a present status of a citizen of another country but is capable of acquiring that status – meaning does not apply in such a circumstance 24 June 2019 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law - Statelessness \| Countries: Australia - India - Sri Lanka
SZVYD v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2019] FCA 648 whether a law is of general application – whether a law is appropriate and adapted to some legitimate object in the country in question 14 May 2019 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Public health - Social group discrimination \| Countries: Australia - Bangladesh
AATA Case No. 1607767 30 May 2017 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Hazara - Non-refoulement - Refoulement - Religious discrimination - Shia \| Countries: Australia - Pakistan
AATA Case No. 1605812 16 January 2017 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Mental health - Persecution based on political opinion - Political groups - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Sunni \| Countries: Australia - Pakistan
AATA Case No. 1506100 1 November 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Honour killings - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Social group persecution \| Countries: Australia - Pakistan
AATA Case No. 1502525 30 October 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion \| Countries: Australia - Turkey
AATA Case No. 1609600 4 October 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Kurd - Persecution based on political opinion - Political groups \| Countries: Australia - Turkey
AATA Case No. 1421338 3 October 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Pashtun - Persecution based on political opinion \| Countries: Australia - Pakistan
AATA Case No. 1612905 3 October 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: Administrative Appeals Tribunal \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Persecution based on political opinion - Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest - Refugee / Asylum law - Social group discrimination \| Countries: Australia - Egypt
Plaintiff S61/2016 v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection 26 September 2016 \| Judicial Body: Australia: High Court \| Countries: Afghanistan - Australia

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