When making a recommendation for deportation, it was unnecessary and undesirable for a sentencing court to consider the likely effect of the recommendation on either the offender's or his family's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.8. The impact of deportation on Convention rights was a matter to be considered by the Secretary of State for the Home Department close to the time of the proposed deportation rather than to be decided at the time of sentence.

[2006] EWCA Crim 508