18 February 2025, 15:48 | Updated: 18 February 2025, 15:58

By James Price

After a week of increasingly bizarre decisions from immigration judges that rocked public confidence in the judiciary, it was an incredibly strange moment for the Lady Chief Justice to make a major intervention into current affairs.

The incident stemmed from an exchange at last week's Prime Minister’s Questions, where Kemi Badenoch raised the issue of a judge allowing a Palestinian family to settle in the UK - but on the Ukrainian resettlement scheme.

Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor ruled that the absence of any kind of resettlement scheme as decreed by Parliament was “irrelevant” and instead it was about their rights to a family life under the ECHR.

This case has come to prominence alongside other eye-opening cases.

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* The Jamaican drug dealer who avoided deportation despite telling the judge he would continue........

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