HOUSE OF LORDS
SESSION 2005–06
[2005] UKHL 71
on appeal from: [2004] EWCA Civ 1123
OPINIONS
OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL
FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE
A (FC) and others (FC) (Appellants) v. Secretary of State for the
Home Department (Respondent) (2004)
A and others (Appellants) (FC) and others v. Secretary of State
for the Home Department (Respondent)
(Conjoined Appeals)
Appellate Committee
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead
Lord Hoffmann
Lord Hope of Craighead
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Lord Carswell
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Counsel
Appellants:
Respondents:
Ben Emmerson QC
Ian Burnett QC
Philippe Sands QC
Philip Sales
Raza Husain
Robin Tam
Danny Friedman
Jonathan Swift
(Instructed by Birnberg Peirce and Partners
(Instructed by Treasury Solicitor)
and Tyndallwoods, Birmingham)
Interveners
Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, Colin Nicholls QC, Timothy Otty, Sudhanshu Swaroop and Colleen Hanley
(Instructed by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) for the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and two other
interveners.
Keir Starmer QC, Nicholas Grief, Mark Henderson, Joseph Middleton, Peter Morris and Laura Dubinsky
(Instructed by Leigh Day & Co) for Amnesty International and thirteen other interveners .
Hearing dates:
17, 18, 19 and 20 October 2005
ON
THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER 2005