The Weekly Law Reports
[2008] 3 WLR 798
Court of Appeal
Othman
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2008] EWCA Civ 290
2008 Feb 26,
27;
March 3, 4, 5, 6;
April 9
March 3, 4, 5, 6;
April 9
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Buxton and Smith LJJ
Immigration— Deportation— Conducive to public good— Jordanian citizen resident in United Kingdom convicted in absentia in Jordan of conspiracy to cause explosions— Deportation order made by Secretary of State on ground of national security— Special Immigration Appeal Commission finding probability that evidence obtained by torture would be admitted at his trial on return to Jordan— Whether commission capable of being satisfied that trial would not involve complete denial of Convention right to fair trial— Whether deportation order to be quashed—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 6