He said: “It is regrettable that the Secretary of State's officials decided to refuse to honour their own undertaking. We note from their own evidence that this decision was taken after ‘senior UKBA personnel were consulted’. We firmly support the decision of the judge. Undertakings are a vital part of the machinery of litigation and save all parties and the Court from the need to exhaustively litigate every last issue. We believe that the finding that the refusal to honour the undertaking was Contempt of Court was in part designed to ensure that there is no future repetition of this conduct on their part.