3 h. ago Second asylum seeker launches legal challenge to halt deportation under one

The first deportation under the UK-France deal went ahead on Thursday despite legal challenges from some asylum seekers

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4 h. ago Home Office faces ANOTHER legal challenge over 'one in, one out' deal 

Labour's 'one in, one out' migrant policy is to face a fresh legal challenge in the High Court this afternoon.

Society

5 h. ago Home Office quietly blocks modern slavery challenges under chaotic deportation scheme

Exclusive: Migrants in the UK due for deportation to France will not be allowed to request review of modern slavery decision

Society

12 h. ago Migrants are 'making mockery' of UK law by blocking deportations, Home Secretary says

It comes after the UK-France migrant deal was temporarily blocked by a legal challenge from a man hours before he was due to be deported

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40 h. ago Human rights fanatic Starmer is sunk... by human rights! Lefty lawyer PM Keir sees launch of 'one

The Eritrean man took his case to the High Court, claiming he would be 'destitute' if the Home Office sends him back to France.

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50 h. ago Labour's flailing 'one in, one out' migrant deal challenged in the High Court by Eritrean man, 25, who claims he will be 'destitute' if sent back to France

A human rights claim - the first challenge to reach court over the UK-France deal - will place the Government under renewed pressure after two removals flights failed to go ahead.

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51 h. ago Migrant faces ‘real risk of destitution’ if removed to France, High Court told

The legal challenge comes as reports suggest deportations of migrants under the deal with France are yet to begin.

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58 h. ago Keir Starmer addresses the nation and declares 'today I make good on that promise'

The Hillsborough Law will create a legal duty of candour for all public officials, such as police officers, with criminal penalties for lying or withholding information

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4 d. ago Labour's small boat migrants deal to be 'overwhelmed with last

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp - who served as an immigration minister in Boris Johnson's government - said Labour's plan would be overwhelmed by legal challenges.

Economics

8 d. ago Channel migrants 'in for compensation over being detained in inhumane conditions': Anti

Nearly 200 asylum seekers have launched legal claims against the Home Office for unlawful detention and mistreatment at Manston migrant holding centre in Dover.

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1 week ago Home Office wins right to challenge Palestine Action terror ban appeal

Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to proscribe the group

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2 w. ago Government to challenge decision to allow legal action over Palestine Action ban

Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to proscribe the group.

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2 w. ago Home Office loses bid to delay trial of Epping asylum seeker hotel use claim

The Home Office said that Epping Forest District Council’s legal claim against Somani Hotels should be delayed by six weeks.

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2 w. ago Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

Washington judge says unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Federal judge temporarily blocks US from deporting children to Guatemala

Washington judge says 10 unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge at least temporarily blocked the government on Sunday from deporting a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families, after their lawyers said the youngsters were loaded onto planes overnight and in violation of laws affording protections for migrant kids.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Rangers challenged amid double deal, Idah's future, Scottish teen in EPL move

The latest Scottish transfer headlines as deadline day approaches. Including the latest rumours from Rangers, Celtic, and Aberdeen on Sunday morning.

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2 w. ago UK chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvency

The £18m deal to acquire Challenge Recruitment Group assets from administration repaid private funders in fullThe UK exchequer is chasing about £90m in unpaid taxes after a temporary staffing business was rescued from insolvency proceedings in an £18m deal that reimbursed private funders in full.The main assets of Challenge Recruitment Group, which counted Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Co-op among its top customers, were acquired from administration in July by the US website swipejobs, in what appears to be the second time the British staffing business has emerged from insolvency while owing tens of millions of pounds to the exchequer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Migrant hotel fightback: Defiant councils 'still planning to take legal action against Government' despite Home Office winning crucial Epping appeal

More than a dozen defiant councils are still planning on taking legal action against the Government despite the Home Office winning an appeal against the closure of an asylum seeker hotel in Epping. 

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3 w. ago Trump attorney Alina Habba has no ‘lawful authority’ to serve as New Jersey’s top prosecutor, judge says

Habba is not ‘lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office’ after administration’s legal showdown to keep her in office, judge says

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4 w. ago US court allows Trump officials to end protected status for 60,000 migrants

Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and NicaraguaA federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal.This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose temporary protected status designations expired on 5 August. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire 8 September, at which point they will become eligible for removal. Continue reading...

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