The legacy, or not, of two notable immigration rulings

High Court judgments on immigration usually go unnoticed. All that changed this week

Justice Richard Humphreys delivered two thunderbolts in the High court last July Pic: RollingNews.ie

High Court immigration judgments routinely go unnoticed by the media. Justice Richard Humphreys, a former legal adviser to the Labour party, put paid to that by delivering two thunderbolts last July.

In a deportation case involving an Algerian man, he urged the government to prevent, root out and revoke sham marriages which he stressed were not a “victimless wrong”.

“I appreciate that love is, of course, blind; but it is nonetheless disturbing to ...