The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 4 WLR 79
Court of Appeal
Regina (MR (Pakistan) and another) v Secretary of State for Justice and others
[2021] EWCA Civ 541
2021 March 9, 10;
April 14
April 14
Dingemans, Lewis, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Immigration— Detention— Detention pending deportation— Immigration detainees held in prison after serving prison sentences pending deportation— Whether absence of equivalent detention centre rules as to detainee’s health systemically unfair rendering immigration detention in prison estate unlawful— Whether irrational not to have obtained medical information of detainee’s status as victim of past torture—
Prison Rules 1999 (SI 1999/728), rr 20, 21
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Detention Centre Rules 2001 (SI 2001/238), rr 34, 35