Case Law

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

1951 Refugee Convention 2
1969 OAU Convention 1
Abduction 1
Access to procedures 14
Administrative law 2
Airports 1
Apartheid 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 13
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-seekers 3
Border controls 3
Burden of proof 3
Cessation clauses 1
Changes of circumstances in home country 1
Children's rights 1
Children-at-risk 1
Christian 1
Citizenship / Nationality law 3
Confidentiality 1
Constitutional law 5
Convention refugee 1
Country of origin information (COI) 11
Credibility assessment 5
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 6
Darod 2
Death penalty 2
Denial of refugee status 1
Deportation / Forcible return 16
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
Domestic violence 5
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 1
Eritreans 1
Ethiopians 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 3
Exclusion clauses 2
Expedited procedures 3
Extradition 3
Forced marriage 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
Freedom of expression 3
Freedom of speech 2
Fresh / New claim 1
Gender-based persecution 1
Grounds for persecution 1
HIV and AIDS 3
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 4
IDP camps 1
Illegal entry 4
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
Immigration Detention 18
Immigration law 11
Internal armed conflict 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
Jurisdiction 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 1
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
Livelihoods 1
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 6
Mental health 1
Migrants 1
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
Multiple nationality 1
National security / Public order 1
Naturalization 1
Non-refoulement 3
Non-state agents of persecution 11
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 1
Passports 2
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 16
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
Political groups 1
Political parties 3
Pre-entry procedures 1
Proof of nationality 1
Public health 1
Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
Reception 7
Refoulement 3
Refugee / Asylum law 17
Refugee camps 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 10
Refugees 3
Refugees sur place 2
Registration 7
Rejected asylum-seekers 6
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
Resettlement 1
Residence permits / Residency 6
Right to education 1
Right to employment 9
Right to family life 4
Right to health 1
Right to liberty and security 1
Right to life 4
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 1
Serious non-political crime 2
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 8
Sexual and reproductive rights 1
Social group discrimination 1
Social group persecution 12
Standard of proof 1
State protection 8
Statelessness 1
Terrorism 2
Tigreans 1
Torture 1
Travel documents 1
Visas 1
Well-founded fear of persecution 3
Witchcraft 1
Women-at-risk 2
Work permits 3
Zulus 1

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Miriam Ali and others v. The Minister of Home Affairs and others 7 September 2017 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law \| Countries: South Africa
Lawyers for Human Rights v Minister of Home Affairs and Others 29 June 2017 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Constitutional Court \| Topic(s): Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants - Immigration Detention - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures \| Countries: South Africa
The Minister of Home Affairs and others. v Cishahayo Saidi and others 30 March 2017 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal \| Topic(s): Residence permits / Residency \| Countries: South Africa
Armand v. Refugee Appeal Board 28 February 2017 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Refugee / Asylum law \| Countries: South Africa
Tshiyombo v. The Members of the Appeal Board et al. 10 November 2015 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Refugee / Asylum law - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures \| Countries: South Africa
Owale Mayemba v. Chairperson of Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs Refugee Status Determination Officer 10 June 2015 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Refugee / Asylum law \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - South Africa
Minister of Home Affairs v. Somali Association of South Africa Eastern Cape (SASA EC) 25 March 2015 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal \| Topic(s): 1951 Refugee Convention \| Countries: South Africa
Christian Bokesta Bolanga v. Refugee Status Determination Officer and others 24 February 2015 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the - South Africa
Abdul Shabani Akanakimana v. The Chairperson of the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs and others 18 February 2015 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Burundi - South Africa
Esnat Maureen Makumba v. The Minister of Home Affairs and others 3 December 2014 \| Judicial Body: South Africa: High Court \| Topic(s): Grounds for persecution - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness \| Countries: Malawi - South Africa

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