Removal policy breaches common law right of access to a court

Author Colin Yeo on Free Movement blog. Could we use this in the Dutch practise as well where a VOVO is supposed to work only when a date is known and where people sometimes are deported from detention before their case is heard.

Hot on the heels of this summer’s confected controversy over last minute legal challenges to removals of asylum seekers, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Home Office’s ‘removal window’ policy is unlawful because it denies the common law right of access to a court. In a timely reminder to ministers and officials, the Court held that ‘the right of access to a court is an absolute and inviolable right’ which ‘is not a relative right to be balanced against other rights and interests, the convenience of the executive or the courts, or the risks of abuse of process.’

Some may bridle at the idea of migrants being entitled to legal protections. It was exactly that sort of thinking which led to the denial of the rights of the Windrush generation, who were wrongly alleged to be unlawfully resident and denied an effective right of challenge. Home Office officials are not always right and it is vital to have proper, independent safeguards in place to reveal the mistakes they sometimes make.

The case is R (FB (Afghanistan)) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1338 and the leading judgment is given by Lord Justice Hickinbottom with agreement from Coulson LJ and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett.

What is a ‘removal window’?

Under the policy of ‘removal windows’ a person facing removal from the UK is not told a specific date on which they will be removed but instead given a range of dates of up to three months. This range of dates is the so-called ‘window’ during which they may be removed. The person is given at least 72 hours’ notice of the start of the period but once the period begins the person might be removed at any time with no further notice. The idea is that a person who has a legal case against removal will be encouraged to bring that case as soon as possible rather than waiting until the last minute – because the person does not know when the last minute might be.

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Increasing number of asylum detainees freed after near-fatal hunger strikes

An increasing number of asylum seekers are being released from detention after almost starving themselves to death, the Guardian has learned.

On Monday alone, four men were freed from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre after refusing food for weeks, according to sources both inside the centre and at the Home Office. As many as 17 inmates were on hunger strike at the centre last month, the Harmondsworth source said.

Security staff say they are placed in an impossible situation as more detainees refuse food as a means of obtaining their release. "We do not want detainees to die, but releasing them may encourage other detainees to go on hunger strike. It is a lose-lose situation," said the Harmondsworth source, who asked not to be named for fear of losing their job.

Continue here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/14/asylum-detainees-hunger-strikes



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Somalian rapist still serving time in Lincoln prison nine years after the end of his sentence

A Somalian prisoner is still serving time inside Lincoln prison nine years after the end of his sentence, inspectors reveal in a damning report today into the overcrowded city-centre Victorian jail.

The prisoner, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for rape, completed his sentence in 2002 but was deemed too dangerous to be released prior to his removal from the country.
He spent a brief period on bail but was returned in 2008 to the grim prison which holds 50 per cent more prisoners than it should and has high levels of bullying and violence, according to the report. The prison’s inspector said that a second convicted rapist from Iran had spent an extra two years inside the prison after the end of his term.
“It seems that for reasons neither man can control, such a return is extremely difficult if not impossible,” according to the report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. “It cannot be right that they continue to be detained for so long without the authority of a court.”
The UK Border Agency said the repatriation of prisoners could be delayed by continued legal action and lack of cooperation from prisoners or the country where they were due to be returned. However, it declined to say why it had taken so long to return the two prisoners.
A UKBA spokeswoman said: “These two individuals are guilty of serious sexual offences and are extremely dangerous. One of them has absconded before and the other has previously failed to comply with his bail conditions. It would not be in the interests of the public to release them prior to their removal from the UK.
“Foreign nationals who abuse the privilege of coming to the UK by breaking our laws should be removed at the earliest opportunity. If deportation is delayed, an extended period of detention is sometimes needed.”

Continue here (original article): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/somalian-rapist-still-serving-time-in-lincoln-prison-nine-years-after-the-end-of-his-sentence-8399627.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed



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