Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda risked ‘refoulement’
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Supreme Court
November 20, 2023
Rex (AAA (Syria) and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Rex (HTN (Vietnam)) v Same; Rex (RM (Iran)) v Same; Rex (ASM (Iraq)) v Same; Rex (AS (Iran)) v Same; Rex (SAA (Sudan)) v Same
Before Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs and Lord Sales
[2023] UKSC 42
Judgment November 15, 2023
The available evidence provided substantial grounds for believing that relocation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, for processing of their asylum claims, would lead to a real risk that they would be returned to the country in which they feared persecution and, consequently, the Home Office policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful.
The Supreme Court so held, inter alia, in dismissing