M. v. Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General, C-560/14

3 M was admitted to Ireland in September 2006 on a student visa. After his studies ended he made an asylum application, which was rejected by the Refugee Applications Commissioner (Ireland) on 30 August 2008. An appeal against that decision was dismissed by a decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal (Ireland) of 28 October 2008. 14 M then made an application for subsidiary protection. That application was rejected on 30 September 2010 and the Minister signed a deportation order in respect of M on 5 October 2010. In his decision of 30 September 2010, the Minister relied, to a large extent, on the earlier decisions concerning M’s asylum application for his conclusion that M had not established that there were substantial grounds for considering that he was at risk of suffering serious harm, in the light, in particular, of the serious doubts as to the credibility of the claims set out in his application. 15 On 6 January 2011, M brought an action before the High Court (Ireland) challenging the decision rejecting his application for subsidiary protection. 16 In the course of considering that action, the High Court referred the following question to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling: ‘In a case where an applicant seeks subsidiary protection status following a refusal to grant refugee status and it is proposed that such an application should be refused, does the requirement to cooperate with an applicant imposed on a Member State in Article 4(1) of ... Directive 2004/83 ... require the administrative authorities of the Member State in question to supply such applicant with the results of such an assessment before a decision is finally made so as to enable him or her to address those aspects of the proposed decision which suggest a negative result?’