Home Office appeal bid over blocked deportation to be heard next week

It marks the first challenge under the Government’s ‘one in, one out’ scheme (PA) - (PA Archive)

The Home Office’s bid to challenge a temporary block on an Eritrean man’s deportation to France will head to the Court of Appeal next week.

In the first challenge against a deportation under the Government’s “one in, one out” scheme at the High Court, the man was granted 14 days to make representations to support his claim that he was a victim of modern slavery.