The Supreme Court has granted an application to have new evidence heard in the case of Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai.
The case has been adjourned until Ms Izevbekhai has appointed new solicitors as her existing solicitor has applied to no longer represent her.
That application came after she admitted in recent days that documents used in her application to remain in Ireland were forged.
The four new affidavits, if correct, will prove that the State has been fundamentally mislead, according to counsel for the state.
Barrister Hugh Mohan applied to the Supreme Court to have the appeal by Ms Izevbekhai dismissed.
He also applied this morning to have four new affidavits admitted as new evidence in the case.
Mr Mohan said if the affidavits, one from a medical doctor, were admitted they would prove the case to be based on a lie.
He said the issues were so fundamental that he would apply to have the case dismissed.
Mr Mohan also said that would happen on the basis that it amounted to an abuse of the court process.
However, Counsel for Ms Izevbekhai said it objected to the new evidence being admitted today because of an application by his clients existing solicitor to no longer represent her.
He said she had lodged the names of new solicitors.
The three-judge Supreme Court ruled that the new evidence will be admitted, but adjourned the hearing until a date yet to be fixed, in the next term.
Mr Mohan said his client, the Minister for Justice, was concerned that the matter be brought to a conclusion as soon as possible.
Pamela Izevbekhai claims her daughter Elizabeth died after being subjected to female genital mutilation and fears if she is forced to return to Nigeria, her two daughters may be subjected to the same procedure.
Last weekend Ms Izevbekhai admitted that medical documents used in her case to date had been forged.
She said the documents were used because a doctor in Nigeria demanded money in order to release the original records.
Pamela Izevbekhai was in court this morning, she was accompanied by friends and campaigners who have been supporting her in her bid to remain here.
Minister for Integration Conor Lenihan has described Ms Izevbekhai’s admission about the fake documents to assist her asylum case as a matter of concern.
Mr Lenihan said the matter would be examined fully by the courts.
The revelation was made after newspaper reports saying that a Nigerian obstetrician and gynaecologist denied earlier claims that he had delivered Elizabeth, and had treated her again when she died.
