“…The difficulty for the appellant is the Supreme Court decision in R (Iqbal, Mirza and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] 1 WLR 85 which considered the construction of section 3C of the 1971 Act. The court dismissed appeals in which the claimants had applied to vary their periods of leave …”
“… of no assistance, as it arose from different provisions and in a different context. The decision of the Supreme Court in the same case (R (Iqbal) v SSHD SC(E) [2017] 1 WLR 85) was not then available.…”