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Deportation - Part 3: Detention

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision...

Deportation - Part 2: Appeals and Judicial Review

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision to...

The deportation of EEA nationals: distinguishing a right from a privilege

The circumstances under which an EEA national in the UK can be deported are a great deal narrower than those under which a non-EEA national can be deported. Section 3(5) of the Immigration Act 1971 states...

Deportation - Part 1: An Overview

In ensuring the myriad of laws, rules and policies that make up the UK’s immigration system have bite, the Secretary of State is afforded the power to remove foreign nationals to their countries of origin....

Deportation Update

In NA (Pakistan) v SSHD [2016] EWCA Civ 662, the Court of Appeal corrected the obvious drafting error in section 117C(3) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended by the Immigration Act 2014),...