George v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Subject Matter

IMMIGRATION — Removal — Public security — EEA national with right to reside in United Kingdom convicted of manslaughter serving prison term — Home Secretary ordering deportation on “imperative grounds of public security” — Claimant successfully appealing deportation — Home Secretary raising challenge in appeal before Upper Tribunal that past conduct alone permitted deportation on public policy grounds but abandoning issue at hearing — Home Secretary seeking to raise issue on further appeal — Whether Court of Appeal to hear issue — Whether appropriate to consider removal as matter of “public policy” — Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (SI 2006/1003), reg 27(3)(4)

[2024] EWCA Civ 1192; [2025] 1 WLR 1025; [2025] 3 All ER 454; [2024] WLR(D) 437, CA

IMMIGRATION — Removal — Public security — Secretary of State deciding to deport EEA national with permanent right to reside in United Kingdom and resident there for over ten years — Whether “imperative grounds of public security” existing — Whether actual risk to public security required — Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1052), reg 27(3)(4)

[2024] EWCA Civ 1192; [2025] 1 WLR 1025; [2025] 3 All ER 454; [2024] WLR(D) 437, CA

Commentary

Free Movement
Can a European national be deported on ‘imperative grounds of public security’ based solely on the barbarity of their crime? Case comment