Trafficking mechanism ‘inadequate’
Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley made the finding in a challenge by a Vietnamese woman allegedly found locked inside a cannabis grow-house in Dublin, who is due to be tried for a criminal offence, arising out of a refusal by the State to grant her a declaration she is the victim of human trafficking.
The judge held the mechanism used in Ireland to recognise if a person suspected of committing a crime is a victim of human trafficking “must be held to be inadequate”. The mechanism relates to an EU directive which imposes certain obligations on states concerning the rights of human trafficking victims.
