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DAVID RENTON explains how the government has attempted to justify it Rwanda policy in the press and through attacks on lawyers
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AT 9.30pm on Tuesday last week, five hours after the Royal Courts of Justice were supposed to have closed for the day, the Court of Appeal granted an injunction preventing the Home Office from deporting refugees to Rwanda.

What lawyers call “interim relief”, the question of whether individuals can be deported, will be back in that court on June 28. 

Meanwhile, the High Court will have a further hearing in July which will assess whether the Rwanda scheme needs to be scrapped in its entirety. 

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