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