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• R (ABW) v Secretary Of State for the Home Department

  17 Dec 2025 [2025] EWHC 3280 (Admin); [2026] WLR(D) 1, KBD (Morris J)

  IMMIGRATION — Human trafficking — Victim
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  IMMIGRATION — Human trafficking — Victim — Secretary of State concluding reasonable grounds foe believing claimant to be potential victim of human trafficking — Secretary of State also deciding claimant threat to public order by reason of having multiple convictions for public order offences and making public order disqualification decision removing claimant’s protection from removal and entitlement to assistance and support — Secretary of State subsequently refusing to complete victim identification in respect of claimant — Whether refusal to complete victim identification after public order disqualification decision unlawful — Whether obligation to complete process so long as individual not removed — Whether approach to decision-making in statutory guidance unlawful — Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (c 36), s 63 — Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005(Cm 7465), arts 10, 13(3)

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