United Kingdom: Court of Appeal rules Rwanda plan unlawful as Rwanda is not a safe third country

29 Jun 2023 | News

On the 29th of June 2023, the Court of Appeal ruled in its judgment AAA and others v. The Secretary of State for the Home Department. The case concerned ten individual asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Sudan and Albania and one charity, Asylum Aid. The...

Belgium: Brussel’s Court ruled that Belgium violates the Civil Code by not guaranteeing asylum seekers’ rights to seek asylum and receive reception and by failing to enforce judicial decisions

29 Jun 2023 | News

On the 29th of June 2023, the Brussels Court ruled in its judgment no. 2022/4618/A. The case concerns a collective complaint by several organisations claiming that since the end of the summer of 2021, the reception network of the Federal Agency for the Reception of...

CJEU: Third-country parent of dependent EU citizen child, who has never lived in the EU, has a right of residence provided that the child resides with him in the Member State of his nationality

22 Jun 2023 | News

On the 22nd of June 2023, the CJEU delivered its judgment C‑459/20. The case concerned X who legally resided in the Netherlands where she was married to A, a Dutch national, with whom she had a child with Dutch nationality. The child was born in Thailand where he has...

ECtHR: Poland’s deportation of Belarusian national allegedly posing a threat to national security violates the ECHR by not respecting his procedural rights

22 Jun 2023 | News

On the 22th of June 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in its judgment no. 1103/16. The case concerned the expulsion of a Belarusian national with a permanent residence permit in Poland. The authorities decided to expel him as his stay would...

Poland: Poland’s Supreme Court rules on detention of asylum applicants and highlights the primacy of the best interest of the child

20 Jun 2023 | News

On the 20th of June 2023, the Polish Supreme Court issued its judgment II KK 148/22. The case concerned a Russian mother, R.Z., who applied for asylum in Poland but moved to Germany, from where she was subsequently returned back to Poland with her newborn daughter....

ECtHR: The living conditions in Moria hotspot, Greece, violated Articles 3 and 13 ECHR

13 Jun 2023 | News

On the 13th of June 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in its judgment H.A. and others v Greece, no. 4892/18 and 4920/18. The case concerned, inter alia, the living conditions of 67 third-country applicants staying in the Moria hotspot and...