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According to our courts, the European charter is there to assist the interpretation of the European convention on human rights. Article 19 of the charter affords particular protections against deportation. It states that each deportation must be specifically examined—there cannot be a provision for collective deportation—and, of course, the thrust of part 4 creates a scenario in which, when a foreign criminal is convicted in our courts, the presumption is towards deportation, and so it should be.