Natalie SedaccaDec 17, 2022

The High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asylum seekers. This follows evidence that she ignored advice from her own officials that the current rate of £40.85 per week is no longer sufficient to meet basic living https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-court-declares-home-secretary-acting-unlawfully-failing-meet-asylum-seekers-essential

#AsylumSeekers #Destitution #CostOfLivingCrisis

High Court declares that the Home Secretary is acting unlawfully by failing to meet asylum seekers’ essential living needs and protect them from destitution in the cost of living crisis | Doughty Street Chambers

The High Court has today ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asy

Show threadDavid NiceDec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca Yet she remains unpunished. Is this, like all the findings re the robbery of us taxpayers to fund rich mates, 'advisory' only?
Show threadNatalie SedaccaDec 17, 2022
@davidpnice it wasn’t a procedure about punishment, it was about whether the rate has to be changed, which it now does
Show threadMatthew MalthouseDec 17, 2022

@nataliesedacca @davidpnice

It still raises the question of what sanction could or should be levied against ministers found to have acted unlawfully.

Others have been so found and remained in office. In at least one case I can recall subsequently changing the law rather than their policy to escape further censure for what the High Court judged “unreasonable”, “irrational” “unlawful”.

Show threadDavid Nice
@calmeilles @nataliesedacca Alas, yes. The law is not justice.
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