FF v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform

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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

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

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.

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