E v The International Protection Appeals Tribunal & Ors (Approved)

THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION APPEALS TRIBUNAL, THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND IRELAND

1.������ This application springs ultimately from an unhappy set of circumstances in which the applicant, Ms E, was continuously maltreated in her home country of Pakistan by male members of her family from whom she had every right to expect better.

2.������ Ms E left Pakistan, went to England for some years, then came to Ireland and belatedly sought asylum here, her delay in seeking asylum apparently being attributable to the fact that she did not previously understood that the asylum regime might apply to a woman in her circumstances.

3.������ Ms E�s asylum application failed at first instance, she appealed to the IPAT, and the IPAT affirmed the initial refusal. She then commenced the within judicial review proceedings of the IPAT decision. Though she pleads an array of points in her pleadings, the hearing focused on two key aspects of the IPAT decision.

6.������ There is enough in the foregoing to indicate: that the facts have been understood by the court; that the arguments made before the court have been weighed and heeded; and why the court has reached the decision that it has. However, should the parties be desirous of still-further analysis of the material and issues presenting, the court engages in same hereafter.