Ben James, a 30-year-old Nigerian-born stockbroker who came to the UK when he was 14 and is fighting moves to deport him, has won the right to mount a second High Court challenge to the Government's insistence that he returns to Nigeria. James, who ran a u40,000-a-year stockbroking business, was on the verge of being deported when he launched the latest bid to remain in the UK. Granting leave to bring his challenge Deputy Judge David Pannick QC said that the case "troubled" him. The Home Office had argued the moves were an attempt to obtain a re-hearing of matters which had already been decided last year when the High Court rejected an earlier challenge to the Home Office stance.
Set date for Rights Act, says Justice
The director of legal human rights group Justice has called for the Government to stop “paddling around in the shallow end” and name a year 2000 date for the Human Rights Act (HRA) to start. A Home Office spokeswoman told The Lawyer the aim is to bring the Act into force sometime next year, but […]