HB (Ethiopia) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA 14 Dec 2006

The court considered the Human Rights effect of a delay in removal of a failed asylum seeker. Buxton LJ said of the claim that the delay led to a separate reason for not ordering the claimants’ return: ‘that enterprise failed, first because the effect in law of such delay is already well-settled by authority binding on this court; and second because all of the four cases before us fail on grounds not related to delay’.

Judges:

Buxton LJ

Citations:

[2006] EWCA Civ 1713, [2007] Imm AR 396, [2007] INLR 150

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

Appeal fromEB (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department HL 25-Jun-2008
The claimant arrived as a child from Kosovo in 1999. He said that the decision after so long, it would breach his human rights now to order his return.
Held: The adjudicator had failed to address the effect of delay. That was a relevant . .
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Immigration, Human Rights

Updated: 24 October 2022; Ref: scu.247350