The applicant sought to quash the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal refusing him refugee status on the ground, inter alia, that the Tribunal erred in considering the relative balance between any economic motives he had in seeking to come to the State and his alleged fear of persecution and finding that he was more of an economic migrant.
The Court granted the applicant leave to seek judicial review and held that there were substantial grounds for his asserting that if a person was a refugee the fact that he might also be an economic migrant did not deprive him of his status as a refugee.
