Monthly Archives: October 2019

Unsettled Status – The CJEU’s judgment in Bilali C-720/17 on statelessness and subsidiary protection

Bilali 2

I wrote about the opinion of the Advocate General in this case earlier this year.  In this blog I consider the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Bilali v Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl C-720/17. The decision of the CJEU is that subsidiary protection could be revoked even though the mistake …

A framework for dignity – states recently acceded to the Statelessness Conventions

Statelessness Conventions

In an earlier blog I considered some of the countries which had not yet acceded to the two Statelessness Conventions and which had no formal protective framework to avoid, reduce or mitigate the effects of statelessness. People are stateless or become stateless for many different reasons.  What they have in common, wherever they are in the world, is the effect …