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Home Office's unlawful policy of seizing Channel-crossing asylum seekers' phones a ‘failure of governance,’ court rules
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel
A “COLLECTIVE failure of governance” allowed the Home Office to operate a secret and unlawful policy that saw hundreds of asylum-seekers’ phones seized and data extracted, the High Court has ruled.
The department has been ordered to inform all those who were subjected to the unlawful policy after arriving to Britain in small boats that their rights were breached.
The ruling in the High Court last Friday means that hundreds of asylum-seekers affected by the policy can now claim compensation.
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