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Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: settlement leads to successful second appeal | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. June 27, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: settlement leads to successful second appeal. Appeal Reference No: 1580422-ASAP-13. 6th June, 2013. The Applicant stated that credibility findings had wrongly been made against him by the Tribunal, and that the Tribunal had failed to consider that homosexuality was illegal in Nigeria. The appeal was re-heard on the 6th of June 2013 by Conor Gallagher BL. It was put to the Applicant by Conor Gallaghe...
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Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Taiwanese transgender claim rejected | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. June 28, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Taiwanese transgender claim rejected. The Applicant was a 25 year old transgender individual from Taiwan, who identified as male, and was referred to as such by the Tribunal. The Applicant also stated that he was gay. The Applicant claimed he had a well founded fear of persecution in Taiwan on the grounds of membership of a particular social group. The Country of Origin Information (COI) on file was...
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Abortion, brain death, and why the 1983 amendment probably doesn’t matter | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. December 20, 2014. Abortion, brain death, and why the 1983 amendment probably doesn’t matter. Earlier this week, the media reported on litigation presently before the Irish courts, regarding a brain-dead pregnant woman, whose family seek to end the artificial maintenance of her somatic life. It seems to me that amid the clamour to express our outrage in 160 characters or less, we have forgotten two sobering points. If an ‘ex-person’ can retain constitutional an...
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. Monthly Archives: June 2014. June 29, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Nigerian woman’s fears of FGM rejected. This was an Application by a Nigerian woman, whose daughter in Nigeria was joined to her application. The Applicant was bisexual and engaged to a Nigerian man in Nigeria. The Applicant claimed a fear of persecution based on her membership of a particular social group. The Tribunal noted that the Applicant claimed to have been scare...
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. December 20, 2014. Abortion, brain death, and why the 1983 amendment probably doesn’t matter. Earlier this week, the media reported on litigation presently before the Irish courts, regarding a brain-dead pregnant woman, whose family seek to end the artificial maintenance of her somatic life. It seems to me that amid the clamour to express our outrage in 160 characters or less, we have forgotten two sobering points. If an ‘ex-person’ can retain constitutional an...
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May | 2014 | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. Monthly Archives: May 2014. May 16, 2014. Addressing inadequate procedures for criminal investigations of Gardai. In this article,I distinguish Garda criminality from other types of Garda wrongdoing, and discuss how the process for criminal investigations of Gardai might be improved. There are four discrete categories of police wrongdoing. They are:. Criminal activity, esp. whilst on duty. As allegations of Garda criminality have come to public attention, polit...
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Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Cameroon man’s rape claims rejected | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. June 28, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Cameroon man’s rape claims rejected. The Applicant was a Cameroonian man. He said he was gay, and had left his home town for schooling, as he was afraid of his parents discovering his sexuality. In 2005, whilst away at school, he went to a gay house party in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, with his boyfriend. Later that year, the Applicant said the man who raped him asked to meet him in a hotel. He...
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. Daily Archives: June 29, 2014. June 29, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: Nigerian woman’s fears of FGM rejected. This was an Application by a Nigerian woman, whose daughter in Nigeria was joined to her application. The Applicant was bisexual and engaged to a Nigerian man in Nigeria. The Applicant claimed a fear of persecution based on her membership of a particular social group. The Tribunal noted that the Applicant claimed to have been sca...
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28 | June | 2014 | Tom Hogan, Law Blog
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Tom Hogan, Law Blog. Law, Politics, Ethics. Daily Archives: June 28, 2014. June 28, 2014. Homosexuality and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal: appeal by Irish-born child rejected. This was an appeal on the papers by a 5 year-old boy, born in Ireland, who was making an application through his next friend and mother, a Jamaican citizen. The Applicant’s mother had made an unsuccessful asylum application in 2008. The Applicant has a sister in Jamaica. The Applicant’s mother contacts this child twice a week...