The UK Law Gazette..
he Supreme Court has dismissed another bid to block a flight removing the first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda under a controversial Home Office scheme today – but defended lawyers who challenge the government.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeal refused to dismiss the claimant’s appeal of a High Court order last Friday that refused to grant individual or interim relief to stay the removal of asylum seekers on a charter flight to Rwanda pending a substantive hearing of the claim for judicial review next month.
Today, the Supreme Court refused to grant permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision.
The Supreme Court said that on behalf of the home secretary, the Government Legal Department assured the court that if the appellant and others were to succeed next month in challenging the Home Office’s policy, he would be returned to the UK. ‘In light of that assurance, the [Supreme Court] refused permission to appeal in the case,’ the UK’s highest court said.
Lawyers representing claimants challenging the Rwanda removals flight came under fire by some parts of the media last week.
Handing down judgment at lunchtime today, Supreme Court president Lord Reed said: ‘The appellant is one of a number of claimants who applied to the High Court on 8 June for permission to bring an application for judicial review of the home secretary’s decision that certain persons, including themselves, who have made claims for asylum in the UK should be removed to Rwanda so that their claims for asylum can be determined by the Rwandan authorities.
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