EXC: The UK Government is following the same path as Russia by drawing up legislation seeking to enable it to ignore decisions on asylum seekers issued by European judges, a law expert argues
The UK Government is drawing up legislation seeking to enable it to ignore decisions on asylum seekers.
In a blog for University College London’s Constitution Unit, Dr Veronika Fikfak, said: “British judges have been told that if the bill is enacted with the new amendments, it will mean that they ‘cannot apply any interim measure, aside from in the narrow route available under the bill where [the applicants] are at risk of serious and irreversible harm’.
She told the Sunday National: “My point is this kind of stance of direct defiance is so rare – it is so incredibly rare because countries when they meet at international level and they meet in France and Strasbourg, they like to be good to each other.“These are diplomatic circles where people frequently meet, they go out for dinners, they do receptions, so this is a small circle where countries like to be liked.
“For me, when I looked at the examples we had, it was really like, it was so rare and, but it was really clear that the UK is now putting itself in this group of states – of a few states – that have chosen this clear defiance.”
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