The WLR Daily case summaries
[2009] WLR (D) 213
IMMIGRATION— Asylum— Deportation— Statutory Instrument creating presumption that those convicted of specified offences constituting danger to community irrespective of sentence imposed — Claimants convicted of specified offences and receiving custodial sentences— Home Secretary making deportation orders— Whether claimants committing “particularly serious crimes” rendering them “danger to the community” of United Kingdom— Whether Statutory Instrument ultra vires— Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, s 72(1)–(6)—
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
(Specification of Particularly Serious Crimes) Order 2004
— Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and (1967), art 33(2)