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Council to seek appeal against High Court ruling over Epping asylum hotel

Epping Forest District Council will continue with legal action over the Bell Hotel after councillors voted over the move on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Asylum seekers can stay at protest-hit Epping hotel after council fails in High Court legal bid

Epping Forest District Council took legal action against owners of migrant hotel in Essex after a series of protests

The Independent UK

Bell Hotel can house asylum seekers, High Court judge rules

Epping Forest District Council applied for an injunction against the owners, Somani Hotels.

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High Court judge to rule on whether Bell Hotel can accommodate asylum seekers

Epping Forest District Council is seeking a High Court injunction against Somani Hotels.

Evening Standard

Council faces wait to discover outcome of asylum seeker hotel injunction bid

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard

Essex asylum seeker hotel in ‘flagrant’ breach of planning laws, court told

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard

Council’s bid to block asylum seekers being housed in Bell Hotel to be heard

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, and the Home Office.

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Home Office loses bid to delay trial of Epping asylum seeker hotel use claim

The Home Office said that Epping Forest District Council’s legal claim against Somani Hotels should be delayed by six weeks.

Evening Standard

Permission for council to appeal over Epping hotel decision refused

The Bell Hotel in Epping became the focal point of several demonstrations and counter-protests in recent weeks.

Evening Standard

Epping council refused permission to appeal asylum hotel decision

The Bell Hotel in Epping became the focal point of several demonstrations and counter-protests in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Council leader urges calm in Epping protests as schools return

The Bell Hotel in Epping became the focal point of several demonstrations and counter-protests in recent weeks.

The Independent UK

Epping migrant hotel protesters march on council offices as police make arrests

Around 200 people gathered outside the Epping Forest District Council building where a woman climbed the steps and unfurled a Union flag.

Evening Standard

Angry protests take place across the UK as migrant crisis deepens

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Masked men attempt to enter London asylum hotel as angry protests take place across UK after Epping ruling

Epping Forest District Council will decide on Monday whether it is set to take its battle over the Bell Hotel to the Supreme Court

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Ministers faced with fresh protests and legal battles after asylum hotel ruling

Three appeal judges described the previous judgment as ‘seriously flawed in principle’ and said the hotel could continue to be used to house migrants.

Euronews

UK government wins appeal over ruling that would have blocked migrants staying in Epping hotel

The government was particularly worried that the High Court decision could have been a catalyst for other similar decisions around the country, which would have thrown its policies for housing asylum-seekers into disarray.

The Independent UK

Starmer warned he must shut migrant hotels or face losing Labour voters to Reform

Labour grandee Lord Falconer tells PM to take action over migrant crisis after government won Court of Appeal challenge over Epping hotel

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Home Office wins appeal to keep asylum seekers at protest-hit hotel

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Epping hotel protest leads to arrests after asylum ruling overturned

The local council has said it is ‘ruling nothing out’ following the Court of Appeal decision

The Independent UK

‘Hypocritical’ Badenoch calls for Tory councils to launch legal challenges against asylum hotels

Tory leader encourages local authorities to ‘take the same steps’ as Epping council

Evening Standard

People have ‘every right’ to protest asylum hotels – shadow home secretary

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

The Independent UK

Labour braced for wave of legal action over migrant hotels as immigration crisis deepens

Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice urged residents to protest outside more migrant hotels to force councils to take legal action to ban asylum seekers

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English councils consider legal bids to remove asylum seekers from hotels

Councils across England are considering legal challenges as the Government scrambles to draw up contingency plan for housing asylum seekers set to…

The Independent UK

Asylum hotel protests latest: Dozens of protesters face off as weekend of nationwide demonstrations begins

Government scrambles to draw up contingency plan as more councils indicate taking legal action

Evening Standard

How people in Epping reacted to closure of migrant hotel

Epping Forest District Council was granted a temporary High Court injunction on Tuesday blocking asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel.

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