Asylum

Hilkka Becker, chairperson of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT), has been appointed as an adjunct professor in law at Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology. An expert in migration and asylum law, Ms Becker has a distinguished career spanning over 25 years in leadership

Ireland has temporarily paused decisions on asylum applications from Syrians following the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule over the country. The Department of Justice said the International Protection Office (IPO) would "temporarily pause the issuing of final determinations while the situation in Syri

More than 3,000 asylum seekers are without accommodation in Ireland, according to new figures. The Irish Refugee Council has challenged the State to address the crisis following recent judgments in the High Court which found that the failure to provide reception conditions to people seeking internat

The State is to appeal a High Court judgment which said it breached asylum seekers' right to human dignity by failing to provide them with accommodation. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, which brought the judicial review proceedings in its own name, said it had received formal notice

The High Court has quashed a decision of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) refusing refugee status to an applicant convicted of manslaughter who claimed that his victim’s family would kill him if he returned to his home country. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Ms Jus

More than twice as many asylum judicial review cases were lodged with the High Court last year than the year before, according to new figures. The Courts Service today published its annual report for 2023, revealing that almost 550,000 new cases came before the courts last year.

The Irish Refugee Council's independent law centre provided legal representation to 550 clients on reception conditions issues last year, according to its latest impact report. The law centre launched 10 new High Court judicial review cases in 2023, with three cases selected as lead cases in respect

Keir Starmer has been urged not to replace the previous UK government's Rwanda scheme with a new Albania scheme. The prime minister met yesterday with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, who has struck a deal with Albania for asylum seekers to be processed there.

A watchdog has called for case studies concerning the use of age assessments in the UK asylum process. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) has commenced an inspection of the Home Office’s use of age assessments.

The number of asylum seekers in the UK who have died in Home Office care has reportedly more than doubled in the past year. Though some deaths occurred due to illness or old age, others were suicides. Charities worry that the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK has adversely affected their health.

Ireland is breaching the human rights of asylum seekers by failing to provide for their basic needs, including accommodation, the High Court has ruled.

The European Commission has formally confirmed Ireland's participation in the controversial EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Ireland is opting-in to seven legal acts under the Pact: the Reception Conditions Directive, Qualification Regulation, Asylum Procedure Regulation, Union Resettlement Framewor

The International Protection Office (IPO) is to begin prioritising cases from Jordan as well as Nigeria. There were 881 international protection applications from Jordan in the second quarter of 2024, making it the country with the second-highest volume of applications after Nigeria.

The Bibby Stockholm barge will no longer be used to house asylum from January next year, the UK government has announced. Moored in Portland, Dorset, it is one of three major accommodation sites for asylum seekers. The "floating prison" was commissioned in April 2023 but only began housing peop

Around £700 million was spent on the previous UK government's controversial Rwanda scheme and over £10 billion had been set aside for it over a six-year period, the new government has revealed. Home secretary Yvette Cooper yesterday told MPs that the scheme, which after two-and-a-half ye