Regina (Saadi and Others) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

Abstract

Human rights — Right to liberty — Permissible deprivations — Detention to prevent a person effecting an unauthorized entry into a country — Effect of principle that sovereign States may regulate entry of aliens into their territory — Whether detention conditional upon necessity or likelihood of person absconding or acting contrary to public good — Meaning of unauthorized entry — Relevance of arbitrariness and proportionality — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — The law of England