The Weekly Law Reports
[2010] 1 WLR 2699
Court of Appeal
*MJ (Angola)
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department and another
[2010] EWCA Civ 557
2010 March 24;
May 20
May 20
Waller, Dyson, Leveson LJJ
Immigration— Deportation— Conducive to public good— Claimant living in United Kingdom since aged 12— Claimant committing crimes while under 21 and having no links with country of origin— Home Secretary ordering claimant’s deportation to country of origin as conducive to public good— Order made while claimant detained in hospital under Mental Health Act regime— Whether Home Secretary having jurisdiction to make deportation order while claimant undischarged mental patient— Whether deportation interfering with claimant’s Convention right to respect for private life—
Immigration Act 1971 (c 77), s 3(5)(b) (as substituted by Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c 33), s 169(1), Sch 14, para 44(2))
—
Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), s 42(2)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
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