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Spain - Supreme Court (Contentious-Administrative Chamber), decision 1091/2020 (appeal no. 3661/2019)
Court name: Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo)
State: Spain
Date of decision:
Legal instruments: 1954 Statelessness Convention
The initiation of the procedure for the recognition of statelessness status does not require the applicant to be in the national territory, it is sufficient for the applicant to be at a border point.
Court name: Municipal Court Prague
State: Czech Republic
Date of decision:
Legal instruments: 1954 Statelessness Convention, 1961 Statelessness Convention, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Other international law
Key aspects: Access to social and economic rights, Protection, Residence permit, Stateless status and documentation, Statelessness and asylum, Statelessness determination
The court stated that “not admitting applicants for statelessness status to an asylum seekers' accommodation centre is an unlawful action” and the applicants should be admitted to an accommodation centre until a decision is made on their applications for recognition as a stateless person. The case was argued based on an analogy with the asylum procedure, as the reference to stateless persons is currently in the Czech Asylum Act.