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15 March 2012
Issue: 7505 / Categories: Case law , Law reports , In Court
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Immigration—Deportation—National security

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W (Algeria) and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department; PP (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Algeria) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 8, [2012] All ER (D) 53 (Mar)

Supreme Court, Lord Philips P, Lord Brown, Lord Kerr, Lord Dyson and Lord Wilson SCJJ, 7 Mar 2012

The court considered the circumstances in which it is open to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) to make an order for an absolute and irreversible guarantee of total confidentiality in respect of a witness’s identity and evidence before that identity and evidence are disclosed to the Secretary of State.  

Michael Fordham QC and Stephanie Harrison (instructed by Luqmani Thompson & Partners, Birnberg Pierce & Partners and Tyndallwoods) for the appellants. Robin Tam QC and Robert Palmer (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State.

The appellants were Algerian nationals. The Secretary of State for the Home Department decided to deport the appellants to Algeria on the basis that their continued presence in the UK was not conducive

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