Vreemdelingenrecht.com - het weblog

 "The Court of Appeal has handed down a major judgment on the correct approach to assessing whether a person is a victim of trafficking: MN v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746 . Although this was the central question in the case and huge resources were devoted to addressing it, the judgment is of much wider interest for what it says about expert evidence and so-called “credibility”. As well as there being two appellants, the AIRE Centre and Anti-Slavery International both intervened with leading counsel. Be warned, the judgment is a very long one.  (...)   Correct approach to expert evidence At paragraph 102 the judgment turns to the issue of expert evidence and engages in what the court belatedly recognises over 20 paragraphs later may have been a “possibly over-elaborate discussion”. This begins with reference to the Istanbul Protocol and the Supreme Court judgment in KV (Sri Lanka ) [2019] UKSC 10 on the differing grades of...

France: National Court of Asylum must take into account all provided documents and must motivate reasons to set a document aside. Summary of the decision in English here: https://t.co/yaa8FHRmpH pic.twitter.com/0mFmWf02hy — EDAL (@EDAL_EU) July 18, 2018 France: National Court of Asylum must take into account all provided documents and must motivate reasons to set a document aside On 21 June 2018, the French Council of State ruled in case no. 413978 concerning an Armenian couple whose asylum applications were rejected by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) and whose appeals were rejected by the National Court of Asylum. The Council of State recalled that the National Court of Asylum, when assessing the credibility of the claims submitted by an asylum applicant, must take into account all the documents provided by the applicant. In particular, where the applicant submits documents that contain detailed information relating to...

Beste lezers. Mijn naam is Tanja van Veldhuizen, een promovenda aan de Universiteit van Maastricht. Binnenkort promoveer ik op mijn onderzoek naar het interviewen en beslissen in asielprocedures in relatie tot de geloofwaardigheidsbeoordeling. Op 21 september organiseren wij daarom een symposium over de geloofwaardigheidsbeoordeling in de asielprocedure. U bent allen uiteraard van harte uitgenodigd! Hieronder volgt de Engelse uitnodigingstekst. Indien u meer informatie wilt over het symposium, of over mijn proefschrift, schroom dan niet om contact met mij op te nemen! Symposium “Assessing Credibility in Asylum Cases: A Legal Psychological Perspective” To stimulate a dialogue among practitioners and scholars in the field of asylum about what constitutes effective credibility assessments, a symposium about this topic takes place on: Thursday 21 September 2017: 13.00 – 18.00 hours De Groote Sociëteit, Maastricht, The Netherlands. You can find more information abo...