Category: appeals

Bulale v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Court of Appeal

“The Court of Appeal did have jurisdiction in rare cases to pursue of its own motion a point of general importance not raised below in order to ensure the state’s compliance with its international obligations.”

The Times, 25th July 2008

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Bulale v Secretary of State for the Home Department.[2008] EWCA Civ 808; [2008] WLR (D) 238

“The Court of Appeal had jurisdiction, in very particular circumstances, to pursue a point of general importance in an immigration case not raised below once it occurred to the court, in order to ensure the state’s compliance with its international obligations. Where the point involved whether a propensity to commit robberies constituted a serious threat to society, it was for each member state to decide what sufficed to make threatened future criminal conduct serious enough to justify expulsion of an EEA national who had a right to reside in the United Kingdom.”

WLR Daily, 15th July 2008

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