26 January 2024
The government’s decision to introduce the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill as a means of circumventing the Supreme Court’s decision, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC writes in this week’s NLJ, is a direct challenge to the authority of the Supreme Court, and ‘arguably to the rule of law itself’
Bindman writes: ‘The underlying problem is disrespect for the law, especially international law, among political leaders.’
Moreover, Bindman highlights the Bill itself is contradictory, and the government’s strategy ‘is the product of division within its party’. It will not even be enough to placate some Conservative MPs, notably Lee Anderson MP, who has said the government should ignore the law and ‘just get the planes in the air right now’.
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