Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 24 April 2018

MP v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Asylum policy — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 4 — Directive 2004/83/EC — Article 2(e) — Eligibility for subsidiary protection — Article 15(b) — Risk of serious harm to the psychological health of the applicant if returned to the country of origin — Person who has been tortured in the country of origin

Case C-353/16


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
01/06/2018 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2018:276
24/04/2018 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:276
24/04/2018 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2017:536
12/07/2017 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Application (OJ)
19/08/2016 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2017:795
24/10/2017 MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.01 Border checks, asylum and immigration
      4.06.01.03 Asylum policy
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.04 Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 27/06/2016

Date of the Opinion

  • 24/10/2017

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

24/04/2018


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 211 from 18.06.2018, p.4

Application: OJ C 326 from 05.09.2016, p.16

Name of the parties

MP (Subsidiary protection of a person previously a victim of torture)

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Gazin, Fabienne: Droit à ne pas être soumis à la torture ou à un traitement inhumain ou dégradant, Europe 2018 Juin Comm. nº 6 p.15-16 (FR)
  2. Weber, Nana: Subsidiarna zaščita žrtve preteklega mučenja v primeru poslabšanja zdravstvenega stanja, Pravna praksa 2018 nº 22 p.30 (SL)
  3. Bartolini, Silvia: Arrêt "MP": dans quelles conditions une victime de tortures passées bénéficie-t-elle de la protection subsidiaire ?, Journal de droit européen 2018 nº 251 p.270-271 (FR)
  4. Tlamycha, Jan: Monitoring judikatury Soudního dvora EU a Tribunálu, Období: 1. dubna – 17. května 2018, Jurisprudence : specialista na komentování judikatury 2018 nº 3 p.53-57 (CS)
  5. Pfersich, Andreas: Asylpolitik, Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union, Anspruch auf subsidiären Schutz, Gefahr eines ernsthaften Schadens für die psychische Gesundheit des Antragstellers, Person, die in ihrem Herkunftsland gefoltert wurde, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2018 p.399-402 (DE)
  6. Simone, R.: Il Foro italiano 2018 10 Col.500-503 (IT)
  7. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Leboeuf, Luc: Droit européen des migrations, Journal de droit européen 2019 nº 3 p.114-130 (FR)
  8. Ferrara, Maria: La protezione sussidiaria dello straniero nei c.d. "medical cases": una discutibile sentenza della Corte di giustizia dell'Unione Europea, Rivista di diritto internazionale 2019 p.518-526 (IT)
  9. González Pascual, Maribel: La prohibición de torturas y penas o tratos inhumanos y degradantes como valor fundamental de la Unión Europea. La sentencia del TJUE en el asunto MP, C-353/16, de 24 de abril de 2018. (RI §421438), Revista General de Derecho Europeo 2019, nº 48, p. 150-162 (ES)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom - United Kingdom

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Convention européenne de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales (04/11/1950), article 3

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lycourgos

Advocate General

Bot

Language(s) of the Case

  • English

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French