06 November 2008
Peter Hungerford-Welch, associate dean, The City Law School, City University London. www.city.ac.uk/law
DW (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] All ER (D) 261 (Oct)
Where the decision of an asylum and immigration tribunal to dismiss an appeal against deportation was based on a misdirection of law, its decision cannot stand, as it is not inevitable that it would have come to the same conclusion if properly directed.
