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Court move to stop deportation of woman and daughters fails

A High Court judge yesterday rejected an application by a Sligo-based Nigerian woman for an injunction restraining her family's deportation.

Pamela Izevbekhai argued that the Irish courts had not yet determined a judicial review challenge to the Minister for Justice's refusal last March to consider her claim for "subsidiary protection" here.

In his judgment yesterday, Mr Justice John Hedigan ruled the exceptional circumstances that would merit granting an injunction restraining the deportation of Ms Izevbekhai and her daughters, Naomi (7) and Jemima (6) did not exist.

Mr Justice Hedigan ruled that Ms Izevbekhai had failed to make out a fair question to be tried in relation to the subsidiary protection arguments and failed to show the family would suffer irreparable damage if returned to Nigeria.

Ms Izevbekhai - who says she has already lost a baby daughter to forced female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria - and her two children were ordered to report to Balseskin reception centre, Co Dublin.

An earlier judicial review challenge by Ms Izevbekhai to the deportation order was rejected by Mr Justice Kevin Feeney last January and last March he refused the necessary permission to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court.

Mary Carolan, irish Times

More story at-http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1119/1227026413675.html

© 2008 The Irish Times

 
 

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