{"id":5802,"date":"2023-04-19T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/submission-to-the-joint-committee-on-human-rights-inquiry-into-the-illegal-migration-bill"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:43:00","slug":"submission-to-the-joint-committee-on-human-rights-inquiry-into-the-illegal-migration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/submission-to-the-joint-committee-on-human-rights-inquiry-into-the-illegal-migration-bill","title":{"rendered":"Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the &#8220;Illegal Migration Bill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download this report<br \/>\nClause 2 of the Bill places a duty on the Secretary of State to make arrangements as soon as reasonably practicable to remove any person who enters the UK irregularly, and has not come directly from a territory where their life and liberty was threatened (which includes anyone who has passed through or stopped in another a safe country). Is this approach compliant with the UK\u2019s obligations under the UN Refugee Convention? What proportion of asylum seekers currently stop in or pass through a safe third country and would therefore be subject to removal from the UK without any assessment of their claim?<br \/>\nThere is no requirement in the Refugee Convention that asylum seekers travel directly to the UK, as found by the High Court in R v Uxbridge Magistrates\u2019 Court ex parte Adimi [2001]QB 667 and the House of Lords in R v Asfaw [2008]UKHL 31. To decide otherwise would completely undermine the underlying principle and purpose of the Refugee Convention to achiev&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download this report Clause 2 of the Bill places a duty on the Secretary of State to make arrangements as soon as reasonably practicable to remove any person who enters the UK irregularly, and has not come directly from a territory where their life and liberty was threatened (which includes anyone who has passed through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}