Deportation case: Counsellors finish opening arguments

The unborn baby of a Nigerian woman fighting deportation is entitled to a legal declaration that he or she is a person, the High Court was told today.

Deportation case: Counsellors finish opening arguments

The unborn baby of a Nigerian woman fighting deportation is entitled to a legal declaration that he or she is a person, the High Court was told today.

Mr Michael Forde, SC, counsel for the baby and its mother, told Mr Justice Thomas Smyth that the State in legal submissions seemed to be abandoning its contention that the baby was not entitled to a legal personality.

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