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8 Feb 2012, 12:13 am
Back in 1983, before we had all become so habituated to detention without end, Mr Justice Woolf (as he was then) held in Hardial Singh, one of the first modern uses of the writ of habeas corpus, that a period of five months of immigration detention was unjustified. [read post]
26 May 2010, 10:16 pm
The power to detain under the 1971 Immigration Act had to be strictly construed, and should be compliant with the principles laid down in Hardial Singh [1984] 1 WLR 704, as extrapolated in Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre (1997) AC 97 PC (HK). [read post]
