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|  Huang v SSHD; Kashmiri v SSHD [2007] UKHL 11 | |
| The HL unanimously rejected the SSHD’s submissions in these conjoined appeals. |
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| JJ v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) | |
| Raza Husain and Danny Friedman acted for two of the six men who have successfully challanged the legality of their control orders in the Court of Appeal. |
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| D and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| Concerned the tort of false imprisonment and the right to liberty as guaranteed by Article 5 ECHR. |
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| R (Limbuela) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| This case concerned the refusal of support to asylum seekers under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, as required by section 55 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, on the ground asylum had not been claimed as soon as reasonably practicable after arrival in the United Kingdom. |
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| R (Rashid) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| Concerned judicial review of the Secretary of State's failure to apply his own policy of not relying on the internal flight alternative to the Kurdish autonomous zone in Iraq. |
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| KK v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) | |
| Raza Husain and Danny Friedman acted for two of the six men who have successfully challanged the legality of their control orders before the Administative Court. |
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| A & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) | |
| Judgment given in A & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department; A & Ors (FC) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department (conjoined appeals) |
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| R (Farrakhan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2002) | |
| In this early decision on the Scope of the Human Rights Act the Court of Appeal accepted that exclusion orders made on the grounds of offensive speech had to be justified and meet the test of pressing social need under Article 10 of the ECHR. Nicholas Blake QC, Matthew Ryder and Raza Husain appeared in this case. |
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| M v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| The Court of Appeal refused the application from the Home Secretary for permission to appeal against the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) decision where M's certification as a suspected international terrorist had been quashed. Ben Emmerson QC and Raza Husain appeared for M. |
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| A & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| The case dealt with whether indefinite detention without charge or trial of non-nationals suspected of terrorist activities is compatible with UK human rights obligations. Ben Emmerson QC, Philippe Sands QC and Raza Husain appeared for seven of the appellants. Rabinder Singh QC and Alex Bailin acted on behalf of Liberty as intervenors. |
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| R (Razgar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| In this case the House of Lords upheld the Court of Appeal approach to certification of human rights claims as manifestly unfounded. The majority concluded that no such certificate could be issued where there were credible claims that an asylum seeker's mental health would be severely prejudiced by return to Germany under the Dublin Convention and Article 8 HRA was engaged. Nicholas Blake QC and Raza Husain appeared for the claimant. |
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| R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator (2004) | |
| The House of Lords considered whether any article of the ECHR - other than Article 3 - can be engaged in relation to deporting an individual when it can be anticipated that his treatment in the receiving state will be in breach of Convention requirements, but without being in breach of Article 3. Nicholas Blake QC represented Ullah. Rabinder Singh QC and Raza Husain acted on behalf of Liberty and Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. |
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| Coghlan v United Kingdom (2003-) | |
| The case concerned the application of Article 6 ECHR to the right to silence. The Claimant contended that adverse inferences had been drawn from his silence during proceedings, and that he had been prevented from giving evidence regarding his silence during police interviews. Raza Husain appeared. |
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| Adan v Secretary of State | |
| The House of Lords considered the time at which a well-founded fear of persecution had to exist for purposes of the Refugee Convention, and the conditions for granting refugee status rather than exceptional leave to remain. Nicholas Blake QC and Raza Husain appeared. |
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