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| TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
| ADAMS V. ADAMS | IMMIGRATION LAW:- Determination of suitability for continuing grant of immigration status – Employment status or visible source of income – Suitable accommodation – Lifestyle consistent with laws of the nation especially criminal laws – How treated |
| AKEWUSHOLA V. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT | IMMIGRATION LAW:- Immigration– Appellant arriving at port of entry with expired United Kingdom passport and claiming right of abode – Immigration officer refusing appellant leave to enter – Statutory provision confining appeal on grounds of right of abode to those producing United Kingdom passport or certificate of entitlement – Whether passport having to be current – Whether right of abode provable on appeal by means other than those prescribed – Immigration Act 1971, ss 3, 13, 33. |
| AL-AMERI (FC) V. ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA | IMMIGRATION LAW AND ASYLUM:- Britain – Accommodation for asylum seekers – Residence of an asylum seeker in a district of accommodation provided to a him/her seeker under legislation which requires the provider to ignore any preference of the asylum seeker – Whether capable of being regarded as residence of the asylum seeker’s own choice |
| CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO V. THE HON. MALLAM USMAN SARKI | IMMIGRATION LAW:- Minister’s absolute discretion to prohibit entry into Nigeria of non-citizens – Proper exercise |
| DANIAN V. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT | IMMIGRATION LAW:– Deportation – Refugee – Asylum – Person served with deportation notice seeking asylum – Person producing evidence of activities in Nigeria and political activities in London – Whether person acting in bad faith can be accorded protection of Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees |
| FAJUJONU V. MINISTER FOR JUSTICE | IMMIGRATION LAW:- Family members with different citizenship – Where children are citizens and one of the spouses is an alien – Where the family is divided – How resolved – Whether it is not a question of asserting the rights of a family, or even of the parents, as against the outside world but of reconciling the rights of individual members of the family when the family itself is divided – Proper treatment IMMIGRATION LAW:- Alien with citizen-children – The ‘inalienable and imprescriptible’ rights of the family as provided for under the Ireland Constitution – Whether dictates foreign policy – Control of the circumstances under which aliens may live or work in Ireland and the making of arrangements for rights of free travel between this and other countries – Whether are peculiarly matters within the competence of the State’s legislative competencies IMMIGRATION LAW:- Minor who is citizen with parents who aren’t – Child’s right to live within the State vis a vis child’s right to the society of her parents – Whether parents can by positing on their child a wish to remain within territory become entitled to a right to remain in territory |
| LUCIEN HABIB V. PRINCIPAL IMMIGRATION OFFICER | IMMIGRATION LAW:- Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance 1956, S4 – Effect on vested citizenship status – Retrospective legislation relating thereto – Proper construction of by court |
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