The Independent reports..
Lawyers are planning a legal challenge against the government’s quarantine hotel policy, arguing it contravenes travellers’ human rights.
International law firm PGMBM is calling for a judicial review of the controversial programme, which came into force just hours ago.
Under the strict new rules all British nationals who have been in or passed through a country on the UK’s ‘red list’ have to stay under ‘hotel quarantine’ for 10 days after they return to England.
Ministers insist the restrictions are necessary to protect the UK from new strains of Covid-19 developing in other countries.
PGMBM believes that the enforced quarantine of people without knowing whether they or not they have Covid-19, and therefore could pass it on to others, could breach human rights law.
Tom Goodhead, managing partner of PGMBM, said his company appreciated the seriousness of the global pandemic.
“This does not, however, mean that policies which constitute extraordinary violations of traditional liberties and human rights should not face careful judicial examination,” he said.
