Facts: The applicant was born in Cameroon in 1965. He worked as a journalist and with an NGO and claimed to have experienced persecution in Cameroon, including arrest, detention and torture. He fled to Nigeria in 1999 and was recognised as a refugee there in 2001. He claims to have been threatened by a Cameroonian diplomat in Nigeria, and in … Read More
FF v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
| Respondent/Defendant: | Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform |
| Court/s: | Court of Appeal |
| Citation/s: | [2017] IECA 273 |
| Nature of Proceedings: | Appeal |
| Judgment Date/s: | 25 Oct 2017 |
| Judge: | Finlay Geoghegan M. |
| Category: | Refugee Law |
| Keywords: | Asylum, Protection (Application for International), Refugee, Refugee Law, Stateless Person |
| Country of Origin: | Cameroon |
| URL: | https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/318af6e0-f050-45db-b8e0-08c467775cdc/2017_IECA_273_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH |
| Geographic Focus: | Other |
| Principles: | The Qualification Directive in using the term “a stateless person” in the definition of “refugee” in Article 2(c) is using this term to connote the second category of persons referred to in the definition of refugee in the Geneva Convention, namely persons “not having a nationality”. This meant a person who was de jure stateless but did not include a person who was de facto stateless. |