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Immigration – Asylum seeker. The claimant sought judicial review of the defendant Secretary of State's decision to remove her and her children to Pakistan. The Administrative Court, in dismissing the application, held that the claimant had failed to avail herself of opportunities to make further representations, the best interests of the children had been considered, there had been no manifest irrationality in the Secretary of State's reconsideration letter and there was no illegality sufficient to trigger the exercise of the court's discretion to require the Secretary of State to bring about the return of the claimant and her children.
Immigration – Asylum seeker. The claimant sought judicial review of the defendant Secretary of State's decision to remove her and her children to Pakistan. The Administrative Court, in dismissing the application, held that the claimant had failed to avail herself of opportunities to make further representations, the best interests of the children had been considered, there had been no manifest irrationality in the Secretary of State's reconsideration letter and there was no illegality sufficient to trigger the exercise of the court's discretion to require the Secretary of State to bring about the return of the claimant and her children.
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