Zulfiqar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 492 (14 April 2022)
In this vital judgment on deportation, twin nationality, international criminals, government powers and duties, proportionality, public curiosity and the appropriate to respect for personal and household life, the Court of Appeal has unanimously held that an individual’s standing as a international felony standing throughout the which means of section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 and section 117C of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 must be decided on the date of the choice to make a deportation order. Underhill, Arnold and Snowden LJJ held that the truth that a international felony had lived in the UK all their life and/or had dedicated the offence which rendered him liable to deportation whereas he was nonetheless a British citizen didn’t imply that there was no public curiosity in his deportation. The Court of Appeal agreed with the Upper Tribunal’s view in Zulfiqar (Foreign felony: British citizen) Pakistan [2020] UKUT 312 (IAC), see right here, that it was proportionate to order Mr Zulfiqar’s deportation in the general public curiosity. Mr Zulfiqar was born in the UK in 1979 and he held twin British and Pakistani nationality from delivery. He lived in the UK his entire life and had solely visited Pakistan as soon as. In 2005 he was convicted of homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimal time period of 15 years. In 2011 he renounced his British citizenship in order to qualify for consideration for…
