Home Office could face hundreds of claims over asylum families in single rooms

The Home Office stressed that the court judgment was based on two individual cases. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The Home Office could face legal action from hundreds of asylum-seeking families stuck in single rooms in hotels after a judge criticised the “extraordinarily stressful” conditions in which they are expected to live.

In a ruling, the deputy high court judge Alan Bates questioned why two families had been forced to live in single rooms for more than three years. He said they should have been moved to alternative accommodation within three months.