Journal d’un Avocat sees a ruling of the Cour de Cassation as a rap on the knuckles for the French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy – who I think you know by now, is standing for President of http://www.raybani.com/ the Republic in a couple of months. His ministry, together with the Ministry of Justice, told departmental authorities they could lawfully summon immigrants refused leave to remain in France to come to government offices, then arrest them pending deportation. The court has ruled that this is in breach of the Article 5 right and therefore unlawful, where the immigrant attends voluntarily to apply to regularise his position and is then arrested.
Pretty technical admin law stuff, reminiscent of some of the most nerdy aspects of our own case-law on immigration. Clearly though, this French blawger (bloiggeur?) sees it as a significant case, at least in the political context.
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