The Government's plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled. Senior judges have rejected arguments that the plans to send asylum seekers to east Africa were unlawful.
Since the Government first announced the plans, several challenges were brought against the proposals, which was first announced by then-home secretary Priti Patel in April. The first flight was expected to take off on June 14 but was grounded due to objections against individual removals and the policy as a whole.
Lord Justice Lewis, sitting with Mr Justice Swift, has now dismissed the challenges against the policy as a whole. However, he had ruled in favour of eight asylum seekers, after finding the Government had acted wrongly in their individual cases.
