R v Chief Immigration Officer, Heathrow Airport and another, ex parte Salamat Bibi This was an appeal by the applicant, Salamat Bibi, against the judgment of the Divisional Court of the
Queen’s Bench Division (Lord Widgery CJ, Thompson and Kenneth Jones JJ) on 9 April 1976 dismissing
the applicant’s application (i) for an order of certiorari to remove to that court and quash the refusal of
leave to enter given to the applicant and her two children by an immigration officer at Heathrow Airport
on 13 March 1976 and (ii) for an order of mandamus directed to the immigration officer and/or the
Secretary of State for the Home Department to reconsider the refusal of leave and/or to admit the
applicant and her two children to the United Kingdom.