The issue of the value (or the lack of it) of oaths and affirmations in court proceedings came up recently in the High Court of Ireland in ND (Albania) & Ors v The International Protection Appeals Tribunal & Anor [2020] IEHC 451. The applicant and her child had applied unsuccessfully for international protection and appealed to Ireland’s International Protection Appeals Tribunal [IPAT] on 17 August 2018. An oral hearing took place on 5 February 2019 at which the evidence was not taken on oath or affirmation: their appeal was unsuccessful [1-5]. They then appealed the Tribunal’s ruling to the High Court.