Strong political case across Europe for a new Protocol to enable states to row back their worldwide obligations to refugees
On Friday, the English court of appeal overturned a temporary injunction granted by a high court judge requiring the owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping Forest, London to stop housing asylum seekers.
The government has a statutory duty to house asylum seekers who are destitute, many of whom arrive in the UK unlawfully in small boats from France. But, under the 1951 Refugee Convention, they are entitled to claim they are genuine refugees and apply for asylum whatever their nationality.
The problem is that determining refugee status is difficult and processing applications takes time, which means asylum seekers need to be housed somewhere while their applications are pending.
Housing asylum seekers in low-star hotels was though
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