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Ireland


This National Site collects leading decisions from Ireland. The National Coordinators for Ireland are:

Patricia Brazil

Ms. Patricia Brazil is the Averill Deverill Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests include family and child law, immigration and asylum law, and criminal law. She graduated in 2001, qualified as a barrister in 2003, and received an M.LITT. She has worked at the Drug Court and researched sentencing policy in Ireland. A full-time researcher with the Law Reform Commission for a number of years, Professor Brazil did extensive teaching and lecturing at Trinity College prior to her full-time appointment there in 2005.

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Suzanne  Egan

Ms. Egan is a lecturer in International and European Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is also a Member of the Irish Human Rights Commission. She was formerly the Legal Supervisor of the Refugee Law Research Unit at York University, Toronto, Canada (1989-1991) and a Research Assistant at the Law Reform Commission in Dublin, Ireland (1991-1992).

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Ireland's Most Recent Decision

The most recent decision added to the Ireland site is Reference 13 v Ireland, a decision rendered in Ireland by the The Refugee Appeals Tribunal on Sunday, January 01, 2006, involving an applicant from Moldova. A brief summary of the facts of the case is: Moldovan woman fears further domestic violence by politically influential partner because she would not abort pregnancy of his unwanted child.

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