This area of immunity was an important consideration in the decision of the House of Lords in M v Home Office [1993] 3 All ER 537, where the Home Office had given an undertaking to the court that an asylum seeker would not be deported before his case had been fully heard, but failed to honour its assurance. The House of Lords held that, in judicial review proceedings against ministers of the Crown acting in their official capacity, the court could grant interim injunctions against ministers. Furthermore, the court had jurisdiction to make a finding of contempt against them or their departments.