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Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Hearings

23 Aug 2017 [2017] EWCA Civ 1284, CA (Rafferty, Irwin, Moylan LJJ)

09 Jan 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

16 Jul 2021 [2021] UKSC 30; [2021] 1 WLR 3847; [2021] 4 All ER 873; [2021] WLR(D) 409, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens JJSC, Sir Declan Morgan)

Additional names

AS v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Subject Matter

IMMIGRATION — Deportation — Conducive to public good

[2017] EWCA Civ 1284, CA

IMMIGRATION — Deportation — Conducive to public good — Secretary of State ordering deportation of young adult settled migrant following convictions and imprisonment as juvenile — Whether deportation proportionate interference with migrant’s right to respect for private and family life — Relevant criteria to be considered in cases involving expulsion of young adults not having yet founded own family — Whether very serious reasons required to justify expulsion — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), s 117C

[2021] UKSC 30; [2021] 1 WLR 3847; [2021] 4 All ER 873; [2021] WLR(D) 409, SC(E)

Appellate History

Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 1284, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed

Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 30; [2021] 1 WLR 3847; [2021] 4 All ER 873; [2021] WLR(D) 409, SC(E)

Commentary

Free Movement
Supreme Court dismisses deportation appeal of man living in UK since he was 9 Case comment

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