Sentences with phrase «decisions by the home secretary»

Almost every decision by every home secretary was more reactionary than anything Thatcher's lot ever dreamed of.

The change follows a decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to ban the drug, which has already been outlawed in other European countries, to avoid Britain becoming a hub for trading in a substance that was illegal elsewhere.

«This can only be a positive development for many refugees who are often victims of badly constructed decisions by the home secretary.»

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Home Secretary Theresa May said: «I am deeply saddened by Baroness Butler - Sloss's decision to withdraw but understand and respect her reasons.

«This seems an astonishing decision by the Home Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.&raHome Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.&rahome secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.»

In a tweet, the Labour leader said the decision announced by the Home Secretary on Monday afternoon denied «truth and justice for victims and their families.»

The scandal has provided a window into the murky depths of British immigration policy and, in particular, a set of policy decisions made in 2012 by the then Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure a «Hostile Environment» aimed at supporting a drive to reduce net migration figures.

But a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn said: «It appears the Prime Minister, by asking the new Home Secretary to conduct an inquiry separately without any of the clear processes and powers that we are talking about, is trying to avoid accountability and clarity about this decision.

Today in the Commons, Johnson said that the former home secretary Jacqui Smith had made clear her dissatisfaction when Nutt publicly disagreed with her decision not to downgrade ecstasy by comparing its dangers with those from horse - riding.

That power is being extended to parents of 16 and 17 - year - olds, allowing families to contact a passport office where officials will investigate their concerns before a final decision is taken by the home secretary.

This would run against the thrust of the recent report by the government's independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, which recommended the home secretary make fewer individual decisions on spying and hand the responsibility over to a judge - led body.

I fully support the decision (announced by the home secretary in the House of Commons on Tuesday) of the chief constable of north Wales, Mr Mark Polin, to invite Mr Keith Bristow, the director general of the National Crime Agency, to assess the allegations recently received, to review the historic police investigations and to investigate any fresh allegations reported to the police into the alleged historic abuse in north Wales care homes.

The shadow minister also accused the Government of «pivot and distraction» by blaming the decision to scrap landing cards on Labour - despite former Home Secretary Alan Johnson admitting on Thursday that the policy had been signed off under a Labour government in 2009.

A Downing Street spokesman later said the «operational decision» to dispose of the documents was taken by the UK Border Agency, meaning it would not have come across the desk of the then Labour Home Secretary.

May says that it is not for the Home Secretary to decide if there is evidence to investigate into an issue but a decision for the police when quizzed by Jay following the New York Times article outlining the scale of the phone - hacking saga.

«Theresa May's ideological and unwise decision to ditch the Labour government's scheme immediately she took office as home secretary has left her and her beleaguered successor with no idea how to tackle the most pernicious form of immigration: illegal entry, usually organised by people traffickers,» they wrote.

Despite the misgivings of some cabinet colleagues, the Home Secretary stuck by the government decision to offer the citizens of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and five other East European nations unlimited access to the British labour market.

Yesterday the home secretary said she intended to enforce a mandatory code of conduct on the drinks industry - a decision that ends the 10 - year campaign by ministers to persuade the drinks industry to enforce a voluntary code on responsible promotion of alcohol sales.

Commenting on the news water cannon will not be allowed in England and Wales, Boris Johnson says «it is the wrong decision» by the home secretary.

Patrick Hennessey, the newspaper's political editor, has blogged this: «The true depth of the anger felt by senior Tories at the decision by David Davis to resign his parliamentary seat and fight a by - election is revealed publicly for the first time in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow when a leading Conservative breaks cover and directly criticises the former shadow home secretary.»

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied bySecretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasHome Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reashome secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied bysecretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

Over many years he has gained considerable knowledge in this area of the law by representing individuals and organisations against decisions of the secretary of state for the home department.

In 2010, a decision that two gay men who faced persecution in their own countries for their sexuality could be returned on the basis they could be discreet was overruled by the Supreme Court, in HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, HT (Cameroon) v Same [2010] UKSC 31.

Following the Supreme Court decision, and urged on by the Conservative Party's coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats, then - Home Secretary Theresa May scrapped control orders in 2010.

It would be wrong as a matter of principle if the secretary of state for the Home Department could circumvent the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal by an administrative decision.

By reference to cases including R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, Miss Behavin» Ltd v Belfast City Council [2007] UKHL 19, R (Stevens) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 792 (Admin) and R (Nagre) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 720 (Admin), Hickinbottom J expressed the view that the differences between the approach required by ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engageBy reference to cases including R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, Miss Behavin» Ltd v Belfast City Council [2007] UKHL 19, R (Stevens) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 792 (Admin) and R (Nagre) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 720 (Admin), Hickinbottom J expressed the view that the differences between the approach required by ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engageby ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engaged.

In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Sergei Skripal [2018] EWCOP 6, Mr Justice Williams made a best interests decision that blood samples could be taken by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from Sergei and Yulia Skirpal in order that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OCPW) could undertake their own analysis to find evidence of possible nerve agents.

HELD While decisions of a Home Secretary under the scheme are susceptible to judicial review, intervention by the courts should be highly guarded and limited to cases where there is an issue about the reach and meaning of a policy where a minister, in his application and / or interpretation of it, strays outside the reasonable range of meaning, or where there is ambiguity.

It is odd, therefore, to find on Judicial Power's list of 50 «problematic» cases Liversidge v Anderson — which is criticised by the editors of the list as showing «excessive deference to the executive's wide discretionary powers in wartime» and for «giving no effect to a statutory provision requiring the Home Secretary to have reasonable grounds for a detention decision».