Ben Nelson

The contours of rationality Rationality review is a cornerstone of judicial review. Often referred to as a “backstop”, judicial review on grounds of rationality is probably the ground which public lawyers, when considering a …

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Tamil migrants’ hellish time held on Diego Garcia Along with the top secret base on Diego Garcia - the UK government has also been dealing with a group of Tamil migrants who spent more than 3 years encamped on the island - where a judge ruled they we...

Tamil migrants’ hellish time held on Diego Garcia
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Have just got access to a copy of the judgment - the account of the conditions in which the asylum seekers were held on Diego Garcia is unflinching. The sheer horror that the UK Government inflicted this on people seeking a place of safety up until a couple of weeks ago:

Mentally ill asylum seekers might be segregated in a non air conditioned 'laundry' or imprisoned in a removal room, with extremely limited access to the outside world. This was all happening with very limited legal infrastructure, but clearly putting the person and others at risk of serious harm.

BIOT Court finds asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia - Matrix Chambers The Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory (“BIOT”) has today held that asylum seekers on the island were unlawfully imprisoned for more than three years.

Summary of the #DiegoGarcia judgment: www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/biot-co.... V interesting (esp for law students I should think). I hope they all get £££ damages. Otherwise I fear the UK will just think it was worth it to appease the US military. I also hope the last 2 men are brought to the UK ASAP.

Judgment can be found here

www.blackstonechambers.com/documents/VT...