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Interesting, would you know the name of this particular case or link to it?Muttsnuts wrote:Very interesting High Court case happend before Christmas in relation to the delay in Citizenship cases.
Applicant applied for Citizneship in 2008 and provided all documents. INIS asked for no other documents and when the delay was queried (multiple times), they kept responding with pro forma letters stating that the current delay is 26 months etc.
Judicial Review proceedings took place (although I think it was only a pre-leave hearing) and on the day before the hearing, the applicant was granted citizenship rendering the proceedings moot. However, the Court awarded costs to the applicant, in contrast to the Nawaz case of 2010.
The Court indicated that in the absence of an explanation for the delay (over the normal processing time of 26 months) and in the absence of any evidnece of a fair system for dealing with applications in order, then the applicant was entitled to costs.
It's not conclusive but at least the INIS will now have to give an indication as to why a particular application is taking so long...
fatty patty wrote: Interesting, would you know the name of this particular case or link to it?
Thanks. This is nawaz case i think...Muttsnuts wrote:fatty patty wrote: Interesting, would you know the name of this particular case or link to it?
Hadn't realised that Brophy Solicitors had made a comment on it.
http://brophysolicitorsimmigration.blog ... ation.html
They were obviously the solicitors on record. I've seen the judgment itself and while it's nothing too conclusive, it's still a step in the right direction.
Yep, that's the Nawaz case alright. Again that's not conclusive also as the only issue was costs but it indicated that the Minister can take as long as he wants processing a Citizenship application. The only thing that would overturn that would be if it could be shown that the Minister acted with some sort of mala fides or malice in not processing the application which naturally, would be next to impossible to prove.fatty patty wrote:Thanks. This is nawaz case i think...Muttsnuts wrote:fatty patty wrote: Interesting, would you know the name of this particular case or link to it?
Hadn't realised that Brophy Solicitors had made a comment on it.
http://brophysolicitorsimmigration.blog ... ation.html
They were obviously the solicitors on record. I've seen the judgment itself and while it's nothing too conclusive, it's still a step in the right direction.
http://www.courts.ie/__80256F2B00356A6B ... anguage_en~