European Chapter Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
23 and 24 September 2010
Current issues in Asylum law
Venue:
Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Alameda da Universidade
Cidade Universitária
1649-014 Lisboa
Thursday 23 September morning
09.00 - 10.00
Plenary meeting IARLJ European Chapter
10.00 - 11.00
Registration/coffee
11.00 - 11.45
Cessation of refugee status and assessment of new circumstances:
A comment on
Abdulla,
ECJ, 2 March 2010.
Speaker:
Roger Errera, former member Conseil d'Etat Paris and Visiting Professor University of Budapest
11.45 - 12.30
Role of National Court when making references to the European Court of
Justice; desirability of cooperation/consultation between courts in
making references and formulation of the relevant issue(s); also the task
of the referring court when the ECJ has delivered its decision.
Speaker:
Dr Hugo Storey, Senior Member UK Immigration Appeals Tribunal
Panellist: Prof. Dr Harald Dörig, Judge Bundesverwaltungsgericht Leipzig
Chair: Sebastiaan de Groot, President IARLJ
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch
Thursday 23 September afternoon
14.00 ‐ 14.45
Opening ceremonies
14.45 ‐ 16.30
Problems encountered by national courts in application of the Dublin II Regulations.
Country reports: an overview of decisions submitted by courts in selected jurisdictions. Particular emphasis will be placed on possible violations of Article 3 ECHR, and/or Article 33 Geneva Convention 1951.
Panel discussion
Presenters:
- Austria: Dr Christian Filzwieser, Judge at the Asylum Court of Austria
- Norway: Per Flatabø, member of the Grand Board Oslo
- Germany: Andrea Wilke, Judge at the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt
- Sweden: Karin Benson, Judge at the Administrative Court Stockholm
- Switzerland: Walter Stöckli, Judge at the Federal Administrative Court
Chair: Jacek Chlebny, Judge and President at the Administrative Court Warsaw
16.30 - 17.15
Presentation REF World (UNHCR - John Young)
19.00
Dinner
Friday 24 September morning
09.30 - 11.30
An applicant's right to protection and the state's entitlement to protect its citizens against terrorism.
Speakers:
- Mark Ockelton, Senior Member UK Immigration Appeals Tribunal
- Judge European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg (tbc)
- Johan Berg, Member Immigration Appeals Board Norway
Panellist: Prof Nuala Mole, founder and
Director of the AIRE Centre, UK
Chair: Katelijne Declerck, member of the Council for Refugee Status Appeals, Brussels
11.30 - 11.50
Coffee break
11.50 - 12.25
12.25 - 13.00
Use of COI in judicial decision making:
"Country information in the judicial phase of asylum procedures - emerging quality standards in European jurisprudence and structural challenges at courts".
Speaker:
Gábor Gyulai, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
The birth of the COI concept in France
Speaker: Martine Denis-Linton, President of the Administrative Court France
Chair: Joseph Krulic, président de section, Cour Nationale du Droit
d'Asile, Paris
13.00 - 14.30
Lunch
Friday 24 September afternoon
14.30 - 15.15
‘The right to an effective remedy – the scope of Article 39 PD and the effect of the proposed amendments.’
Speaker:
John Barnes, former member UK Immigration Appeals Tribunal
Chair: Eamonn Cahill, Member Refugee Appeals Tribunal, Dublin
15.15 - 16.30
The Lisbon Treaty: its implications for asylum law
Speaker:
Dr Antonio Vitorino, former member of the EU Commission, Portugal
Panellists:
- Prof. Dr. Boštjan Zalar, High Court Judge in the Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia
- Nuala Mole
- John Barnes
Chair: Professor Eduardo Vera-Cruz, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Lisbon
Draft Agenda 
