N.K. v The International Appeals Tribunal and Anor (Approved)

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      In these proceedings, the applicant seeks to quash a decision of the respondent tribunal ("the Tribunal") dated 13 March 2024 in which the Tribunal affirmed the recommendation of the international protection office ("IPO") that the applicant should be given neither a refugee declaration nor a subsidiary protection declaration.

      The applicant is a national of Georgia born in October 1998. � On 14 � September 2022, she entered the State legally on foot of a visa valid from 28 August 2022 to 2 April 2023.� ( Her mother has been living in Ireland since 2019 and has been granted international protection here.) The applicant returned to Georgia in January 2023 before coming back to Ireland in March of that year.� She applied for international protection on 1 June 2023.�

      As the principal issue in this case turns on the question of whether the Tribunal properly assessed the basis of the applicant's claim to have a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to Georgia, it is necessary to set out the basis of her claim in some detail.

      The applicant says that her experience of the police was that when her mother was abused the police did not help her and she had no hope that they would help herself and her brother in the situation that emerged.  She alleged that when her mother reported her father's abuse, he was only given a warning and sent back home as her father had connections in the police.