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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, wh...

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 -------------------------- Law blog Klik op +1 als u dit een interessant artikel vindt en ...

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...