The applicant challenged regulations brought in by the respondent providing for foreigners suspected of terrorism to be detained where a British national suspect would not have been detained. The respondent had issued a derogation from the Convention for this purpose. Held: The people detained were those who could not be returned to their own country … Continue reading A, X and Y, and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 25 Oct 2002

The applicant had been detained under the appellant’s certificate that he was a suspected terrorist. Held: The fact that there were suspicions surrounding the detainee did not mean that those suspicions were necessarily reasonable suspicions as required by the Act. Though a detainee could leave this country as an alternative to detention, his safe removal … Continue reading The Secretary of State for the Home Department v M: CA 18 Mar 2004