Case Law

4 November 2014 | Judicial Body: Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Statelessness - Statelessness Determination Procedures | Countries: Italy

26 August 2014 | Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Burden of proof - Eritreans - Ethiopians - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - Tigreans | Countries: Eritrea - Ethiopia - South Africa

6 June 2013 | Judicial Body: Italy: Courts of First Instance | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Gender-based persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Prostitution / Commercial sex work - Social group persecution - State protection - Trafficking in persons - Women's rights - Women-at-risk | Countries: Italy - Nigeria

4 April 2013 | Judicial Body: Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Denial of refugee status - Generalized violence | Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Italy

3 April 2013 | Judicial Body: Italy: Courts of First Instance | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Gender-based persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Social group persecution - State protection | Countries: Italy - Nigeria

6 December 2012 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Credibility assessment | Countries: Ethiopia - Sweden

27 November 2012 | Judicial Body: Italy: Court of Appeal (Corte d’Appello) | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Gender discrimination - Gender-based persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Social group persecution - State protection - Well-founded fear of persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Italy - Nigeria

Remanded to determine whether respondent could avoid future persecution by relocating to another part of the country and whether, under all the circumstances, it would be reasonable to expect him to do so.

4 October 2012 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Countries: Sri Lanka - United States of America

25 June 2012 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Benefit of the doubt - Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Rohingya (Arakanese) | Countries: Ireland

18 August 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Benefit of the doubt - Burden of proof - Credibility assessment - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) | Countries: Australia - Iran, Islamic Republic of