This appeal concerns the Secretary of State for the Home Department's powers of detention under paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 3 to the Immigration Act 1971 and the implications of his failure to have regard, when exercising those powers to detain the Appellant, to his own policy as set out in a document entitled "Enforcement Instructions and Guidance". [Summary required.]

Related judgments

Anam v SSHD (2010) EWCA Civ 1140

• Anam v SSHD (2009) EWHC 2496 (Admin)

External link

Bailii

Isabel McArdle, 'Detaining and deporting the mentally ill', UK Human Rights Blog, 26/10/10