The newly notified case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v Kamara [2016] EWCA Civ 813, shows that sometimes the Secretary of State does not always get what she wants: ie churning out of permission applications in deportation appeal cases with the sole purpose of convincing the Upper Tribunal or Court of Appeal to overturn an allowed deportation appeal.
The Court of Appeal in Kamara made it clear that contrary to the Secretary of State’s submissions, the case in truth did not raise important points of principle, however in a short and to the point judgement has made important clarifications in relation to the phrase, “there would be very significant obstacles to his integration into the country to which it is proposed he is deported”, which appears in Paragraph 399A of the Immigration Rules and Section 117C(4) of the 2002 Act.