‘Stansted 15’ protesters who stopped deportation flight have convictions overturned

‘Stansted 15’ protesters who stopped a flight trying to deport 60 criminals to Africa have convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal Group cut through airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together  767 jet transporting people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa  Were convicted in December 2018 before all 15 avoided jail in … Read more

Home Office in new deportation row as lawyers seek to block removal of Channel migrants

Judges’ powers to block deportations could be limited as Justice Secretary Robert Buckland announces first review of Human Rights Act in 20 years Robert Buckland said the review would look at key areas of the Human Rights Act Includes whether judges’ interpretations of old legal decisions should be limited Critics claim focusing on old cases … Read more

Home Office in new deportation row as lawyers seek to block removal of Channel migrants

Judges’ powers to block deportations could be limited as Justice Secretary Robert Buckland announces first review of Human Rights Act in 20 years Robert Buckland said the review would look at key areas of the Human Rights Act Includes whether judges’ interpretations of old legal decisions should be limited Critics claim focusing on old cases … Read more

Windrush victim daughter’s warns against linking scandal to deportation

Windrush victim’s daughter warns against linking scandal to deportation of Jamaican killers and rapists Clayton Barnes was wrongly targeted by authorities in the Windrush scandal His daughter said it was wrong to conflate his case with hardened criminals Samantha Barnes-Garner said deporting criminals is the right thing to do   By Emine Sinmaz and David Barrett … Read more

Windrush victim daughter’s warns against linking scandal to deportation

Windrush victim daughter’s warns against linking scandal to deportation of Jamaican killers and rapists By Emine Sinmaz and David Barrett For The Daily Mail Published: 23:08 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 23:09 GMT, 4 December 2020 The daughter of a Windrush victim insisted last night that the scandal should not be linked to the … Read more

The human rights lawyers celebrating after Priti Patel raged at them over Jamaican deportation plane

Lawyers who helped stop 23 criminals including rapists and killers being deported to Jamaica toasted their success after halting their removal, declaring ‘What a result’. The barristers were from a number of firms acting in tandem with campaign groups Movement for Justice and Detention Action. Solicitors from companies including Cranbrook Legal and Clarendon Park Chambers said they … Read more

Gaddafi ‘henchman’ has won the right to appeal deportation after seeking asylum over six years ago

Gaddafi ‘henchman’ has won the right to appeal deportation after seeking asylum over six years ago with his wife and three UK-born children Man, known only as AB, sought asylum in  2014 with his wife and three children ‘Serious reasons’ to suspect he committed war crimes, said the Government The Home Office argued that the … Read more

Judges will be told what constitutes ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’ in deportation cases

Judges who use human rights laws to block deportations of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals will be told what counts as ‘inhuman or degrading treatment.’  Home Secretary Priti Patel is considering the move to try to restrict the ability of judges to make ‘subjective’ decisions about what form of conditions deportees would face in … Read more