Two High Court judges who dismissed a series of legal challenges against the government’s planned deportations to Rwanda showed “excessive deference” to the Home Office and the guarantees it had received from the Rwandan government, the Court of Appeal has heard.
In December, Lord Justice Lewis and Mr. Justice Swift ruled the policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda if they had crossed the English Channel was lawful but gave the charity Asylum Aid the right challenge their decision in a higher court.
On Tuesday, at the start of a four-day hearing in the Court of Appeal, Raza Husain, KC said there were “serious evidential gaps and deficiencies” that had not been properly examined by the High Court judges….