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easonably benevolent construction of his actions and decisions following receiptof a mandatory order made apparerly without jurisdiction not least when,. Ashere, thse actions and decisions are being guided at every step by responsiblelegal advisers.Before Somon brown I Mr Laws who was appearing for the <strong>Home</strong> Office and Mr.Baker, but who had not appeared before Garland I when the alleged undertakinghad been givben, did not feel it proper to dispute that the undertaking had in factbeen given. As to this aspect of the case in the Court of Apeal Lord DonalksonMR said (1992) 4 All ER 97 at 132 – 133, (1992) 1 QB 270 at 298):Whilst I understand and respect Mr Laws’s attitude I do not think that I would beright for the court to shut its eyes to the wholly exceptional circumstances of thiscase. In any ordinary circumstances if a party, or solicitors or counsel on hisbehalf, so act as to convey to the conduct the firm conviction that an undertakingis being given, that party will be bound and it will be no answer that he did notthink that he was giving it or that he was misunderstood. Here, however, thecircumstances were extraordinary and the pressures of time overwhelming. Itwas a situation in which misunderstanding was waiting to happen. If, as I think, itwould not be right to regard the <strong>Home</strong> office or the <strong>Home</strong> Secretary as beingbound by an undertaking at a time when all concerned left court at the conclusionof the hearing vefore Garland I this position could not be altered by Mr BurgessM’s solicitor informing Mr George the chief immigration Officer that anundertaking had been given. I do not, therefore, think that any question of555

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