I am pleased to present the first volume of what will be an annual publication of a ‘Summary of judgments of the Irish Superior Courts relating to decisions of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal’, which can be accessed here.
This summary already forms part of the Tribunal’s Annual Report for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 and the Members of the Tribunal are provided with summaries of judgments of the Irish Superior Courts on a regular basis so that important lessons from those judgment can be learnt and utilised in order to further enhance the quality of the Tribunal’s decision-making.
The ongoing monitoring of relevant judgments from the Irish Superior Courts and also of course from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) relating to international protection feeds both into the quality assurance process of the Tribunal under the lead of Deputy Chairperson John Stanley, who is the author of this summary, and into the ongoing training of Tribunal Members which is led by the Tribunal’s Head of Training, Deputy Chairperson Cindy Carroll.
My thanks go to both Cindy Carroll and John Stanley for their excellent work and I hope that this summary will prove equally useful to legal practitioners and others interested in the area of international protection law as it is to the Tribunal in its decision making.
Hilkka Becker
Chairperson
International Protection Appeals Tribunal