‘I am very scared’: refugees await judgment on UK’s Rwanda policy

Demonstrators outside a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, in September protesting against the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Photograph: Tom Pilgrim/PA

It has been more than three months since two of the UK’s most senior judges sifted through thousands of pages of evidence and heard opposing arguments from some of the country’s lawyers about whether or not the government’s controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful. On Monday at 10.30am, at the Royal Courts of Justice, they will deliver their judgment.

The government’s plan to export asylum seekers from one of the world’s richest countries to one of the world’s poorer nations, 4,000 miles away, is so radical that no other country has attempted anything like it.