PM v Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform

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Respondent/Defendant:Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Court/s:High Court
Citation/s:[2014] IEHC 9
Nature of Proceedings:Judicial Review
Judgment Date/s:14 Jan 2014
Judge:MacEochaidh J.
Category:Refugee Law
Keywords:Asylum, Asylum (Application for), Persecution, Refugee, Refugee sur place
Country of Origin:Zimbabwe
URL:https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/505c0e3e-7b09-46af-ba31-d36b052ba57f/2014_IEHC_9_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH
Geographic Focus:Ireland

Facts: The applicant was a national of Zimbabwe who claimed to fear persecution there on account of her political opinion based on her involvement with the Movement for Democratic Change (“MDC”). She arrived in Ireland in 2002 and was granted permission to remain in the State on conditions that she would not take up employment or engage in any business … Read More

Principles:

A person who leaves his or her country of origin because of persecution and failed to claim asylum on arrival in the State cannot claim to be a refugee sur place on the basis that the persecution feared had become more serious since the time he or she left his or her country of origin. Failure to seek refugee status at the earliest opportunity provides a sound basis upon which to impugn the credibility of such a claim.

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