England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE IMMIGRATION APPEAL TRIBUNAL

		Royal Courts of Justice Strand London WC2 Tuesday, 9th July 2002

Tuesday, 9th July 2002

1. LADY JUSTICE HALE: I am prepared to grant one more adjournment in this case, but Mrs Anirah must understand this is the very last adjournment that will be granted. One of the applications has been adjourned twice already, on the first occasion because exactly the same happened in court as has happened now. The other one has been adjourned once already, and it is in fact an application in the course of on-going proceedings, which mean that they are being delayed pending this application.
2. These are Mrs Anirah's applications. They are both of them in cases where there has already been one appeal; so it would be unjust for them to be delayed any longer than this one more time. That means that when the case is next listed the court will decide these applications irrespective of whether Mrs Anirah is herself able to attend or is able to be represented. I will reserve them to myself if I am available; that is partly because I have read the material which is currently before the court, and also because I have been here and witnessed what has happened today. It will mean that I know the position and that it is the very end of the matter, in justice to the other party, and in justice to Mrs Anirah herself. It is not doing any good to her to have this stress continuing. These applications, which are her applications, must be determined.
3. I cannot necessarily say 1st October but I will adjourn it to the first available date in October to be listed before me. As I have made it quite plain that is it; no more adjournments. It will go ahead whether or not Mrs Anirah can be here, whether or not she is taken ill again, but in the hope that she can be represented.