Palisetty v Secretary of State for The Home Department: QBD 21 Jul 2014

The claimant said that she had been wrongfully removed to India, and sought damages.
Held: Slade DBE J said: ‘On the evidence on which the immigration officers acted and that which would have been available to them at the time, I find that they were justified in detaining the Claimant for examining her on arrival at Heathrow on 28 December 2011. However on the material before the immigration officers and that which was available at or around 28 December 2011, the Defendant was not justified in inferring that the purpose of the Claimant in seeking to re-enter the United Kingdom was not to study but to work as a nanny. The Defendant has failed to satisfy the burden of proof on her to establish that the detention of the Claimant after examining her was justified.’

Judges:

Slade DBE J

Citations:

[2014] EWHC 2473 (QB)

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Immigration Act 1971

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Immigration, Torts – Other

Updated: 23 July 2022; Ref: scu.535134