R v East Grinstead Justices, Ex parte Doeve

Subject Matter

ALIEN — Deportation order — Power of justices — Alien charged with and pleading guilty to breach of landing condition contrary to provisions of statutory Order — Justices requiring alien to enter into recognisances to leave United Kingdom in seven days — Order vesting deportation procedure in Home Secretary subject to safeguards — No provisions in Order entitling justices to require alien to deport himself — Justices' order quashed — Aliens Restriction Act, 1914, s 1 (1) (2) (as amended by Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1919, s 1) — Aliens Order, 1953, arts 25, 26 (1) (2) (as amended)

[1969] 1 QB 136; [1968] 3 WLR 920