Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?
BBC News says expert lawyers who have been involved in the Rwanda case – or supported the challenge to the policy – have described new legislation as potentially setting up a politically explosive fight with both the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.
In last month’s Supreme Court ruling, five justices unanimously ruled that the country was not safe – and they listed the detailed evidence about how its asylum system was deeply flawed.
The key element of the government’s package tries to deal with this part of the defeat by asking Parliament to declare Rwanda to be “conclusively” safe and simultaneously banning British judges from ever saying it is not.
That is aimed at preventing the courts from once again considering documented evidence about injustices in Rwanda’s asylum system. Taken to a hypothetical extreme, if Rwanda exploded with civil war like in 1994 (not something currently likely to happen), British law would still state the country was a safe place to send people.
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