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R (Raissi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Author / Contributor: John Jones QC
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R (Raissi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
   
Issue: whether the Home Secretary’s scheme for making ex gratia payments to those wrongly detained applied to persons detained in connection with extradition proceedings; if so, whether the claimant had been “completely exonerated” for the purposes of the scheme, or the Home Secretary was unreasonable in not finding the case to be wholly exceptional.
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   C1/2007/0694/QBACF
   
Neutral Citation:   [2008] EWCA Civ 72
   
Judge(s): Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Smith and Hooper LJJ
   
Date: 39492