Index card R (NB) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

R (NB) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Hearings

England & Wales

03 Jun 2021 [2021] EWHC 1489 (Admin); [2021] 4 WLR 92; [2021] WLR(D) 320, QBD (Linden J)

Subject Matter

IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Support — Accommodation — Claimant asylum seekers victims of torture and trafficking — Secretary of State placing claimants in accommodation at former military barracks — Whether accommodation adequate — Standard of review of adequacy following United Kingdom’s withdrawal from European Union — Whether Secretary of State operating unlawful system for determining suitability of accommodation for vulnerable asylum seekers — Whether breaching claimants’ human rights — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42)), Sch 1, Pt I, art 3 — Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c 33), ss 95, 96 — European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c 16), s 4 — Asylum Seekers (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/7), reg 5 — Council Directive 2003/9/EC, arts 2(f), 13

[2021] EWHC 1489 (Admin); [2021] 4 WLR 92; [2021] WLR(D) 320, QBD

Commentary

Free Movement
High Court condemns treatment of asylum seekers unlawfully held at Napier barracks Case comment

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