The court heard appeals concerning the cancellation of the passports of the appellants, XH and AI, on the grounds that the Secretary of State suspects that they plan to travel to be involved in terrorism-related activity. The Secretary of State was concerned to prevent them from travelling to Syria to fight with terrorist organisations there.
Held: The appeals failed: ‘it is clear that there remains vested in the executive the prerogative power to cancel a passport as described in the WMS’.
Sir Terence Etherton MR, Lloyd Jones and Sales LJJ
[2017] EWCA Civ 41, [2017] WLR(D) 76
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – MR, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for The Home Department Admn 10-Mar-2017
The claimant challenged the use of the Royal Prerogative to withdraw his passport. He had as a youth been involved with a terrorist organisation, but said that he now regretted that and was no longer so involved. He had sought to set up a business, . .
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Administrative, Constitutional
Updated: 10 November 2021; Ref: scu.573871