A Constitutional Court judgment that provides protection to asylum seekers who currently have their application for refugee status under review‚ has been welcomed by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC).In the High Court in Cape Town‚ 29 asylum seekers‚ represented by the LRC‚ challenged the refusal of the acting manager of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office to renew their section 22 asylum seeker permits, pending the outcome of individual high court reviews of each of their rejected asylum applications. The case rested on the issue of what the reception office must lawfully undertake in terms of granting an extension on these permits.If asylum seekers in such cases are not granted extensions of their permits‚ they are at risk of arrest and deportation‚ denying them the ability to effectively exercise their right to judicial review‚ the LRC noted.The case was on appeal after a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal. On Tuesday‚ the Constitutional Court held that the constitutional in...
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