The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1975] QB 118
[COURT OF APPEAL]
SIRROS
[1972 S. No. 1660]
v.
MOORE AND OTHERS
1974 May 15,
16,
17;
July 30
July 30
Lord Denning M.R., Buckley and Ormrod L.JJ.
Judge
— Circuit judge
— Judicial immunity
— Mistake by judge as to ambit of appellate jurisdiction of Crown Court
— Jurisdiction to detain in custody alien recommended for deportation conferred on appellate court by statute
— Order to police to take alien into custody invalid through judge's mistake as to jurisdiction
— Civil action for damages against judge
— Action not maintainable where judge acting judicially in good faith
— Extent of immunity of judges of all courts in modern conditions
—
Aliens Order 1953 (S.I. 1953 No. 1671), arts. 20 (2) (a), 21 (4)
—
Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), ss. 9, 10 (5), 57 (1) (b)
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