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[2022] WLR(D) 322
Queen’s Bench Division
Regina (MG) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2022] EWHC 1847 (Admin)
2022 June 29, 30; July 20
Johnson J
Human rights— Inhuman or degrading treatment— Duty to investigate— Claimant asylum seeker staying in hotel funded by Secretary of State— Claimant injured in attack by another asylum seeker also resident at hotel— Secretary of State declining to initiate independent investigation into events— Whether Secretary of State breaching obligations relating to prohibition on inhuman or degrading treatment— Whether housing of asylum seekers in private accommodation giving rise to lower level systems duty to adopt administrative measures to safeguard life— Whether operational duty arising by reference to known risk— Whether decision not to investigate unlawful—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 3