Right to safe asylum

Law for Change backed one of the key High Court challenges by Asylum Aid to the Home Office procedure for removing asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. This is the second part of the legal challenge to the Home Secretary’s policy. Asylum Aid’s case concerns the procedure the Home Office has adopted to make decisions on whether to remove asylum-seekers to Rwanda. Asylum Aid argues the procedure is unlawful and unfair because it involves extremely tight timescales and makes an unlawful presumption about the general safety of Rwanda. The myriad of decisions to be made are complex, the information provided to individuals is inadequate and the time allowed is not sufficient to provide individuals with an opportunity to obtain legal advice, gather the necessary evidence and make adequate representations.

Asylum Aid has been granted permission to appeal against the Divisional Court's judgment on the Rwanda plan and the case will be heard by the Court of Appeal on 24-27 April 2023. Supported by Leigh Day and Law for Change, Asylum Aid is set to challenge the judgment ruling that the Home Office’s curtailed process for deciding who to send to Rwanda was fair and lawful.