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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Asylum-seekers put at risk by law, warns top judge

Asylum-seekers put at risk by law, warns top judge

Labour's tough stance on immigration may have forced courts to send asylum-seekers back to their home countries to face "torture or death", one of the most senior judges in England and Wales has warned.

Lord Justice Sedley, a Court of Appeal judge, accuses the Government of threatening the independence of the judiciary by imposing a rule that obliges judges to dismiss an asylum-seeker's story if that refugee has fled their home country using a false passport. Sir Stephen Sedley, writing in the London Review of Books, warns that such a measure "is a serious invasion of judicial independence
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1 comment:

Catchthebudgie said...

Asylum-seekers have a right to find a place of residence that can protect them and support them.

You have to ask yourself why they come here?

I think it is because we are an open society, with freedoms and rights that far exceed those found in other countries.

However, I do not like immigrants that take, take and take and use this country as a easy life.

There is a clear differance between the two and it seems the innocent are being branded unfairly.