Secretary of State for the Home Department v Latif [2007] EWCA Civ 385

[2007] EWCA Civ 385Case No C5/2006/2033
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION APPEAL TRIBUNAL
Mr CMG Ockelton, Deputy President of the AIT, Senior Immigration Judge Grubb and Immigration Judge Baker
Venue Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LLDate 26/04/2007
Before
LORD JUSTICE CHADWICKLORD JUSTICE DYSONLORD JUSTICE THOMAS
Between
Secretary of State For the Home DepartmentAppellantJikar Rawani Nazlim LatifRespondent
Jenni Richards (instructed by Treasury Solicitors) for Appellant for Did not appeal was not representedHearing Hearing date: 28 March 2007
Judgment
[1]This is the judgment of the court.[2]The Secretary of State appeals against the decision of the AIT promulgated on 10 July 2006. The respondent has since returned to India. The Secretary of State wished to challenge the AIT’s reasoning. That reasoning was the subject of argument in the appeal of Ahmed Iram Ishtiaq and is considered in the judgments handed down today in the appeal in that case.[3]In these circumstances, the Secretary of State’s appeal in the present case is academic and no useful purpose would be served in giving a substantive judgment in it. We intend simply to make no order.