Government appeal system for processing asylum seekersā applications, which has been in use for a decade, must be quashed, high court rules
A fast-track immigration appeals procedure under which thousands of asylum seekers have been locked up each year has been declared unlawful by the high court.
Mr Justice Nichol said the process under which rejected asylum seekers arriving in Britain are detained and given seven days to appeal was āstructurally unfairā.
The judge said the rules put asylum seekers āat a serious procedural disadvantageā and said it ālooks uncomfortably akin to ā¦ sacrificing fairness on the altar of speed and convenienceā.
[…]Jerome Phelps, the director of Detention Action, which brought the legal challenge, said he was pleased that the appeals process had been found to be not just unlawful but alsoĀ ultra vires.
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Alan TravisĀ Home affairs editor,Ā
For further information:
- Detention Action:Ā High Court quashes Detained Fast Track asylum appeals process, 12 June 2015
- British Refugee Council:Ā Detained fast track appeal system ruled unlawful, 12 June 2015
- EDAL:Ā UK High Court finds appeals procedures on the āDetained Fast Trackā unlawful, 18 June 2015
- AIDA:Ā UK Country Report – Accelerated Procedures, January 2015