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Appeal brought by deported man with alleged ISIS links is dismissed

Summary

The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by a man, whose identity is withheld for legal reasons, who had been deported to Jordan in 2016 on security grounds linked to alleged involvement with ISIL, ISIS, Daesh or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He had previously sought to set aside the deportation order, compel the Minister to accept his asylum application, and claim that he did not need the Minister's consent to apply under the 1996 Refugee Act. The High Court in 2016 dismissed his challenge to the deportation and the Minister's refusal to consider his asylum application in 2015. The Court of Appeal upheld those decisions in 2018. The Supreme Court, hearing the appeal on Tuesday, ruled that the man's arguments constituted an impermissible collateral attack on earlier procedural steps and that the appeal was dismissed, leaving the lower courts' decisions intact.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Appeal brought by deported man with alleged ISIS links is dismissed. Procedural stage: appeal

When:

• 2019-07-23 Publication

Why: The Minister had opposed the appeal on grounds including that, because the man had been deported, his application was now moot or pointless. CNI source report

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