Andrew Conway MorrisDec 17, 2022
Natalie Sedacca

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

Dec 17, 2022 at 9:53amWeb
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 threadDavid NiceDec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca But lawbreakers should at the very least be removed from office, ideally imprisoned, don't you think?
Show threadLassielmrDec 17, 2022
@davidpnice @nataliesedacca unlawful is not illegal. Although in her case I’d happily see her sacked
Show threadDavid NiceDec 17, 2022
@lassielmr @nataliesedacca Funny, I'd have thought the definitions were identical. Maybe I'm wrong.
Show threadLassielmrDec 18, 2022
@[email protected]@[email protected] in law there is a subtle difference. Illegal means there is a defined 'law' to break. If you break it there are consequences. Unlawful on the other hand is where there isn't a specific law passed for such action.
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 NiceDec 17, 2022
@calmeilles @nataliesedacca Alas, yes. The law is not justice.
Show threadFreedom FighterDec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca all asylum seekers should be given fair assessment and reasonable support, Obvious fake asylum seekers, should be deported immediately, that would allow better concentration of resources to the genuine ones.
Show threadPhilDec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca I'd be surprised if that made it into her profile puff piece in today's Times.
Show threadJohn Caveney woke is me🛠️Dec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca she’s a Tory, she doesn’t care for the law, she actually believes she’s above the law! Vile woman, we thought Patel was evil, she was (is) but Braverman plumbs new depths!
Show threadThomas KalinowskiDec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca I assume Braverman will be ordering herself arrested.
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May's 'hostile environment' amped up. #ToryFascism
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Show threadThomas Lee ✅ Dec 17, 2022
@nataliesedacca I am going to ask the obvious question. So what happens now? She acted unlawfully so will she be arrested? Or can she just say 'sorry' and keep on going? I can't really imagine her saying 'and here are the millions so I can act lawfully' ? We live in sad times.
Show threadLassielmrDec 17, 2022
@DoctorDNS @nataliesedacca unlawful is not illegal.
Show threadThomas Lee ✅ Dec 18, 2022
@lassielmr @nataliesedacca Thanks for that. The distinction is not always obvious to me. I guess the answer is that she can continue to act unlawfully w8
ith little or no kickback. Another reason why we need a #GeneralElection
Show threadThe Old Reading RoomDec 17, 2022
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Indeed. And housing them in decrepit hotels owned by gangsters isn't a good look either #Hoogstraten
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyDec 17, 2022
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It's a real, and unusual, problem when ministers don't give a damn about breaking the law 😞
Show threadPieter Kuiper 🇸🇪Dec 18, 2022

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This should be relevant for Sweden too. Here asylumseekers and Ukrainians get 71 crowns per day (39,21 GBP per week), an amount that has not changed since 1994 !

#dagersättning