The Government will now have to consider the legal costs of any future asylum policies they develop, a lawyer representing some of the refugees in the Rwanda deportation case has said.
Toufique Hossain, head of public law at law firm Duncan Lewis – which represented six of the lead claimants – said that politicians will have to bear in mind “the waste of taxpayers’ money” if they try to make a new asylum deal before it’s tested in the courts.
