14 Mar 2021
Boris Johnson’s government is claiming that upcoming legislation will stop lawyers from blocking deportations by resorting to “meritless” judicial reviews of immigration tribunal decisions.
A spokesman for the government, which has talked tough on immigration and foreign criminals but presided over a 79 per cent fall in deportations of foreign criminals in 2020, said new laws “will end the industrial use of judicial review to the High Court with hopeless claims that have already been adjudicated by tribunal judges which frustrate removals at the last minute.”
Of 5,500 judicial reviews since 2012, a mere 12 0.2 per cent of cases were actually successful, with the “vast majority” of referrals being immigration and asylum cases, according to
3 Jan 2021
Britain left the European Union in name in January 2020, but remained subject to the EU, its judges, and its migration regime through a so-called “transition” period. It left in a real sense on at 11 pm on December 31st according to supporters of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s exit deal, at least. But how did the country get here?
With the fall of Theresa May in June 2019, Tory MPs had at last turned to the Brexiteer king over the water, Boris Johnson, to deliver them from electoral annihilation at the hands of Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party.
Johnson had delayed his entry into the EU referendum campaign, missed his moment when he unexpectedly won it, and hesitated to move against May when fellow Tory Brexiteers had begged him to move against her he had even voted for May’s “turd” deal on her third attempt to get it through Parliament, fearing, like many Brexiteers, that if he did not accept her fake Brexit then the Remain establishment in Parliament w