📢LEGAL UPDATE - the Rwanda Act and Treaty📢

In response to the Guardian article today announcing the Home Office plan to start detaining people for the Rwanda flight, we've just published this update.

We will add more info as we find out more.

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Messages from frontline asylum charities wondering what to do in face of gov claiming start of asylum arrests tomorrow:

1. People are frightened, be careful not to allow our fear to spread further to them. Be calm. Remember your role is to listen, present options, don’t direct.

🚨The government has said it is going to start arresting people they think they can send to Rwanda. Solid calm advice from the brilliant Lou Calvey here ⬇️and keep reading down for excellent advice from Toufique Hossain from DuncanLewisPublicLaw.

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NEWS: Our client Migrants At Work LTD. seeks to challenge the SSHD's failure to properly consider the impact that changes to visa rules for care workers will have on vulnerable people.

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Public Law Solicitor Nicholas Hughes has joined several prominent media outlets to discuss the recent passing of the Rwanda Bill through Parliament and what this means for asylum seekers in the UK. DuncanLewisPublicLaw #RwandaBil

Find his discussions here: buff.ly/3UB2bNd

It is a dark day in the #UK after the #RwandaBill was passed.

It will have a devastating impact on human rights & the rule of law, risking the lives of asylum seekers & setting a dangerous global precedent.

New from Yasmine Ahmed & me ⬇️ Human Rights Watch

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UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk and UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi call on the #UK government to reconsider its plan to transfer asylum-seekers to #Rwanda .

New legislation seriously hinders the rule of law in the UK and sets a perilous precedent globally.

'If this is a flagship policy to stop the boats... There's no evidence that it's doing so.'

Rwanda litigation team solicitor Nicholas Hughes, from law firm Duncan Lewis, tells #R4Today they will 'do everything they can' to prevent clients from being put on a Rwanda flight.

The “Safety of Rwanda” bill was passed by the UK Parliament: both UN Human Rights and UNHCR are very concerned by this decision, which breaches refugee law and won’t help address the challenges of irregular population movements.

Read our joint statement:
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Following the passing of the “Safety of Rwanda” Act by the UK, UN leaders have sounded the alarm on the harmful impact it will have on global responsibility sharing, human rights and refugee protection.

Full statement: unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

Asylum seekers of Tamil ethnicity have been granted bail after being held in a camp since Oct 2021.
The substantive hearing will take place in July 2024. Chris Buttler KC and Jack Boswell represent the second to sixth Claimants, instructed by Duncan Lewis Solicitors ow.ly/9mVf50RlYoL

Almost 4 yrs ago, our highly vulnerable Jamaican client was in detention facing deportation. He’s now a recognised trafficking victim & the FTT has allowed his appeal on refugee & Art 3 ECHR grounds.
Our Hannah Baynes & Hannah Louise instructing Gordon Lee of Garden Court Chambers

Mark Townsend Waging Peace 🧡 DuncanLewisPublicLaw Additionally, Waging Peace has compiled an impactful book of drawings by child survivors of genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan. This 80-page, full-colour hardback, available in English and Arabic, tells their powerful story.

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Mark Townsend Waging Peace 🧡 DuncanLewisPublicLaw Read Mark Townsend's report 'Darfur's unfolding dystopian nightmare': buff.ly/4431Y8D

Waging Peace is an NGO based in the UK dedicated to building better lives for Sudanese refugees. Visit their website: buff.ly/2Zpgmp9

📣 High Court orders release from immigration detention to Schedule 10 accommodation.

Our Alex Schymyck of Garden Court Chambers acted for the claimant, instructed by Lewis Kett & Dominic Chambers of Duncan Lewis Solicitors.

Read on here 🔽
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Listen here:

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Last week, the Home Office made a decision disqualifying vulnerable victim of trafficking from protection+support, because of their 'threat to public order'. Decision withdrawn at last minute following urgent legal action. Jamie Bell Elle Wilkins Bell Camila Zapata Besso DoughtyStPublic