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KM for Judicial Review of a Decison of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to Detain the Petitioner [2010] CSOH 8
February 6, 2010 | No CommentsThe petitioner arrived in the UK in 2000 and was granted asylum. In 2002, he is arrested, but granted Temporary Admission and released from custody subject to reporting conditions which he breaches. In 2004, he is convicted of robbery and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Read the full article »Samantha Orobator v (1) Governor of Holloway Prison (2) Secretary of State for Justice
February 3, 2010 | No CommentsA decision not to release a British citizen, who had been convicted by a court in Laos for a drugs offence
Read the full article »KB (Trinidad & Tobago) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
February 3, 2010 | No CommentsHeld that deportation cases did not call for a materially different approach from that required in ordinary removal cases,
Read the full article »(1) JO (Uganda) (2) JT (Ivory Coast) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
February 3, 2010 | No CommentsHeld that in deportation cases on grounds of criminal offending, a balance had to be struck under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8 with a proper appreciation of the special situation of those who had been in the host country since childhood.
Read the full article »HM Treasury v Mohammed JabarAhmed & Others; HM Treasury v Mohammed Al-Ghabra; R (on the application of Hani El Sayed Sabaei Youssef) v HM Treasury
February 3, 2010 | No CommentsHeld that the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006
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