“A suspected Jamaican sex-offender charged five times but never convicted for allegedly raping vulnerable women has been banned from Britain for a decade in a controversial new police tactic to target foreign criminals.”
The Independent, 7th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lawyers say police could ‘circumvent criminal justice’ by using intelligence in civil immigration courts to increase deportations.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
SS (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2013] EWCA Civ 550; [2013] WLR (D) 192
“A claim under article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms made in reliance on the interests of a child with British citizenship by a foreign criminal seeking to resist deportation under section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 needed to be very strong to prevail given the pressing public interest in removal and the great weight to be attached to the policy of deporting foreign criminals by virtue of its origin in primary legislation. Only in extremely rare circumstances should a tribunal exercise an inquisitorial function on its own initiative in evaluating the interests of such a child.”
WLR Daily, 22nd May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Immigration has proved a toxic issue for recent Home Office ministers. In 2004 home secretary David Blunkett resigned following revelations that a visa application had been fast-tracked. Immigration minister Beverley Hughes resigned after admitting she ‘unwittingly’ misled people about a suspected visa ‘scam’. Charles Clarke resigned as home secretary in 2006 after intense pressure over the release of foreign prisoners who could have been deported at the end of their custodial term.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th May 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Radical cleric Abu Qatada will launch a fresh bid for freedom today as he seeks to be released from prison at an immigration tribunal.”
The Independent, 20th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Inquiry expected to look at the restraint techniques authorised by G4S as well as the UK Border Agency.”
The Independent, 14th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A day after the Court of Appeal refused her permission to appeal to the Supreme Court in the Abu Qatada case, Theresa May’s announcement today of a mutual legal assistance treaty with Jordan seems finally to turn the case in her favour.”
Head of Legal, 24th April 2013
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“Theresa May is to detail renewed diplomatic attempts to secure fresh assurances from Jordan that the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada will not face a trial based on torture-obtained evidence if he is deported from Britain.”
The Guardian, 24th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Theresa May’s legal battle to deport the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada has suffered a further setback with the court of appeal turning down her attempt to take the case to the supreme court.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Extradtition, Deportation and Human Rights (PDF)
Edward Fitzgerald QC
Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th March 2013
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
“The government has asked for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling preventing the deportation of radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada.”
BBC News, 17th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Appeal judges have almost doubled the jail sentence of a man who filmed himself raping a woman on his iPad.”
The Guardian, 12th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Strasbourg Court has ruled that a Somali national’s detention pending deportation was not lawful under domestic law.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A convicted rapist should be compensated after being unlawfully detained for two and a half years while awaiting deportation, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled.”
The Guardian, 9th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hot on the Home Secretary’s loss of the Abu Qatada appeal, a reverse for her in another deportation case about someone whom the Court of Appeal described as ‘an important and significant member of a group of Islamist extremists in the UK,’ and who was said to have links – direct or indirect – with men involved in the failed July 21 2005 bombing plot.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Omar Othman is a resident of this country – guilty of no crime and up to now facing no charges – whose home country wants to put him on trial in a case where the key evidence against him will in all likelihood have been procured by torture. The only reason he probably won’t be tortured is because the state concerned has reluctantly promised (as an inducement to get him back) not to follow its usual routine.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 30th March 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“UK courts have ruled against sending Abu Qatada to Jordan, but now he might be charged for allegedly breaching bail conditions.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May has lost her appeal against a ruling preventing the
deportation of preacher Abu Qatada.”
BBC News, 27th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May is due to learn whether she has won an appeal to
overturn a decision to allow radical cleric Abu Qatada to stay in the UK.”
BBC News, 27th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
