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Article: Law Report: Correct interpretation of `a threat to national security' 26 May 2000 Secretary of State for the Home Department v Rehman Court of Appeal, (Lord Woolf Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Harrison) 23 May 2000
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2000
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THE SECRETARY of State for the Home Department was entitled to
regard a person's presence in the United Kingdom as not being
conducive to the public good, where that person's conduct would
adversely reflect on the security of the United Kingdom,
notwithstanding that the target for the conduct was another country.
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department against a decision of the Special Immigration
Appeals Commission (`SIAC') that the applicant should not be deported
on the ground that he was a threat to national security. The
applicant was a Pakistani national who was issued with entry
clearance in 1993 to enable him to work as a minister of ...