LRC v Refugee Appeals Tribunal, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland and the Attorney General

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Respondent/Defendant:Refugee Appeals Tribunal, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland and the Attorney General
Court/s:High Court
Citation/s:[2014] IEHC 500
Nature of Proceedings:Judicial Review
Judgment Date/s:01 Oct 2014
Judge:Barr J.
Category:Refugee Law
Keywords:Asylum, Country of Origin Information, Persecution, Refugee
Country of Origin:China
URL:https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/c3fd2f0f-a1b1-48b3-9e16-f59931d28809/2014_IEHC_500_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH
Geographic Focus:Ireland

Facts: The first applicant and her husband were Chinese nationals. They claimed asylum in the State and argued that they were at risk of persecution in China because they infringed the country’s one child policy. They said that they had had a son in 1998, but secretly, because they were not legally entitled to marry. They subsequently married and the … Read More

Principles:

Parents who claim to have infringed China’s one child policy will arguably constitute a particular social group capable of being persecuted in China within the meaning of s. 2 of the Refugee Act 1996.

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