Court name: Court of Appeal
State: Ireland
Date of decision:
Legal instruments: 1954 Statelessness Convention, European Union law
Key aspects: Detention, Stateless status and documentation, Statelessness and asylum, Statelessness determination
This case concerned an appeal as to whether an applicant for subsidiary protection may be considered both as a national of a third country and a stateless person simultaneously under the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006 and the Qualification Directive. The Court held that a person who is a national of a state is not a stateless person and that such state or country is his country of origin in relation to which his application must be primarily decided.