Archiwa: Voivodeship Administrative Court - Association for Legal Intervention

Obligation to examine whether migrants in Belarus are at risk of torture and other inhumane treatment

14 June 202214 June 2022

Foreigners cannot be pushed into Belarus if they would be in danger of torture, inhuman or otherwise unacceptable treatment there. Neither a migration crisis nor illegal border crossings exclude the application of this p…

The judgment: Jehovah’s Witnesses are at risk of being persecuted on religious grounds in Russia

21 January 202117 January 2023

Since religious worship involves the practice of religion, and missionary activity is essential to the practice of Jehovah’s Witnesses, abandoning this in fact constitutes submission to orders of authority that violate t…

Ruling: gross failure to act is not justified by the overburden of the administrative authority

6 July 202013 November 2020

In the situation of a significant exceeding of the deadline to issue a decision, the significant increase of the number of cases in the administrative authority cannot justify it. It is a gross failure to act. In two…

Voivodship Administrative Court: labor market test is not a formal defect

24 January 20207 December 2020

Lack of labor market test is not a formal defect of an application for work and residence permit. In consequence, the Province Governor had the obligation to consider the case, and our client had been staying in Poland…

Voivodeship Administrative Court: evidence needs to be properly reviewed

23 December 201917 January 2023

The Refugee Board has completely failed to take into account evidence presented by a party pertaining to his political activity and to the treatment of members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan at the hands…

Voivodship Administrative Court: stay of the execution of the asylum decision

24 July 201921 December 2022

The ruling of 17 July 2019, no. IV SA/Wa 1457/19, of Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw was based on Article 46 (5) of the procedural directive (2013/32/EU). The court highlighted the necessity to stay the executi…