Title AI and Others v Director of Asylum Seeker Management: Department of Home Affairs and Others (22059/18) [2019] ZAWCHC 114
Publisher South Africa: High Court
Publication Date 2 September 2019
Country Burundi | South Africa
Topics Refugees sur place | Rejected asylum-seekers
Cite as AI and Others v Director of Asylum Seeker Management: Department of Home Affairs and Others (22059/18) [2019] ZAWCHC 114 , South Africa: High Court, 2 September 2019, available at: https://www.refworld.org/cases,ZAF_HC,5d7a1f604.html [accessed 26 October 2019]
Comments The applicants have shown that they have a clear right to the relief they ultimately seek in the main application, a well-grounded apprehension of harm and no other satisfactory remedy. The respondents seek to have the Immigration Act trump the Refugees Act. This is contrary to the injunction in the Ruta case that the two statutes can and should be read in harmony. The applicants are thus entitled to the interim relief they seek, i.e. that they be issued with section 22 permits.
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