Arumugam and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department

21.10.2020

Practice Areas

Public Law

Cases Citation

PC/04/2019

The Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC) allowed the appeal against the Secretary of State’s refusal to deproscribe the ‘Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’ (the LTTE), on application by the ‘Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam’ (TGTE).

The case concerned whether the Secretary of State had a reasonable belief that the LTTE was ‘concerned in terrorism’, and the application of discretionary factors. The hearing took place in both Open and Closed sessions.

Emily Wilsdon was instructed for the Secretary of State, led by Sir James Eadie QC and Ben Watson.