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Minister failed to give reasons for rejecting evidence of torture risk
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High Court grants judicial review of a deportation order, where the applicant claimed to fear torture or inhuman or degrading treatment if he returned to Egypt, where he claimed to have been blamed by members of an extreme political group for a fatal workplace accident, on the grounds that the Minister did not give sufficient reasons for rejecting the evidence that the applicant was at risk of torture or inhuman treatment.
Judicial review - deportation order - whether real risk of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment - principle of non-refoulement - whether adequate reasons given for finding that deportation would entail no risk of torture or inhuman treatment - s.3 of the Immigration Act, 1999 - false information given on arrival in the State - failure to attend for interview - in custody since conviction of serious criminal offence.
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