Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1995
Date1995
Year1995
CourtPrivy Council
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  • R (Khadir) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 June 2005
    ...case which applied the Hardial Singh principles to which I must briefly refer, the decision of the Privy Council in Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre [1997] AC 97. The applicants there were Vietnamese boat people whowere refused refugee status and detained in Hong ......
  • R (SK (Zimbabwe)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 May 2011
    ...ensure the removal of the individual within a reasonable time." 12 This statement was referred to with approval in Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre 1997 AC 97. Lord Browne-Wilkinson said of the power to detain pending removal in the Hong Kong Ordinance at p 111A-D......
  • Vanderwerff v Royal Cayman Islands Police
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 1 June 2007
    ...Q.B. 994; [1998] C.O.D. 301; (1998), 95 (11) L.S. Gaz. 36, followed. (11) Tan Te Lam v. Tai A Chau Detention Centre (Superintendent), [1996] 4 All E.R. 256, followed. (12) Young v. Gordon, 1994–95 CILR 445, referred to. Legislation construed: Bail Law (2006 Revision), s.7: The relevant term......
  • Nazary v R
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 1 January 2001
    ...(2) Scott v. Baker, [1969] 1 Q.B. 659; [1968] 2 All E.R. 993. (3) Tan Te Lam v. Tai A Chau Detention Centre (Superintendent), [1996] 4 All E.R. 256, applied. Legislation construed: Immigration Law (2001 Revision) (Law 12 of 1991, revised 2001), s.2: The relevant terms of this section are se......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Keeping control of terrorists without losing control of constitutionalism.
    • United States
    • Stanford Law Review Vol. 59 No. 5, March 2007
    • 1 March 2007
    ...5(1)(f). See R v. Governor of Durham Prison, [1984] 1 All E.R. 983 (Q.B.); Tan Te Lam v. Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre, [1997] A.C. 97 (P.C.) (appeal taken from Court of Appeal of Hong Kong); R (Saadi) v. Sec'y of State for the Home Dep't, [2001] EWCA (Civ) 1512, [2001] 4 Al......
  • A tale of two systems: the use of international law in constitutional interpretation in Australia and South Africa.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 29 No. 1, April - April 2005
    • 1 April 2005
    ...WLR 87), the United States (Zadvydas v Davis, 533 US 678 (2001)) and Hong Kong (Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre [1997] AC 97). DEVIKA HOVELL * AND GEORGE WILLIAMS * BA, LLB (Hons) (UWA), LLM (NYU); Director, International Law Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Pub......
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-3, May 2007
    • 1 May 2007
    ...was prepared to return to India was consideredin his favour. Conversely, in Tam Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A ChauDetention Centre [1997] AC 97, the refusal of a detainee to accept volun-tary repatriation, which would have ended the period of detention, wasof fundamental importance to th......
  • Uncertainty and Exclusion: Detention of Aliens and the High Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 34-1, March 2006
    • 1 March 2006
    ...of Durham Prison; Ex parte Hardial Singh [1984] 1 WLR 704, [1984] 1 All ER 983; Tan Te Lam v Superintendent of Tai A Chau Detention Centre [1997] AC 97. 155 Al-Kateb (2004) 219 CLR 562, 619 [157] (Kirby J). 156 Ibid 620 [161] (Kirby J). 157 Ibid 615 [146] (Kirby J). 158 War Precautions Regu......

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