ZT v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005 EWCA Civ 142]
By way of illustration, the jurisprudence in Soering v. the United Kingdom received something of a body blow when the House of Lords ruled in N v. Secretary of State for the Home Office [2005] 2 AC 296 Article 3 of the ECHR 1950 could only prevail over a removal order where the claimant risked death in the receiving country or where they established an ‘exceptional’ case.
Therefore, it was decided that an AIDS sufferer was not entitled to resist a removal order to Zimbabwe because they would interrupt the medical treatment she was receiving in the UK.
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