Saturday, November 13, 2004

Three-Day System for Asylum Bids 'Not Unfair' / Scotsman, 12 Nov 2004

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3749904
John Aston
"The Government's new, experimental fast-track system for dealing with asylum applications was given the backing of the Court of Appeal today.

The Refugee Legal Centre had urged the court to rule the system being tested at Harmondsworth Detention Centre in west London, near Heathrow Airport, 'unlawful and unfair'?.

Human rights lawyers argued that the three-day timetable for processing claims was too fast to be fair, but the three appeal judges ruled the system was not inherently unfair as long as it remained flexible."