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Administrative Court dismisses judicial review of asylum seeker accommodation decision R (Coventry City Council) v Home Secretary

Rowena Wisniewska has written a case analysis in partnership with LexisNexis UK.

Public Law analysis: The Administrative Court has dismissed a claim for judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the Home Office’s actions in placing asylum seekers in accommodation in the claimant’s local authority area. The Secretary of State’s (SSHD’s) actions were taken in purported exercise of her powers derived from and in purported performance of her duties under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (‘the 1999 Act’). The claimant accepted that it was appropriate for a number of asylum seekers to be accommodated in its area but said that the number being accommodated there was excessive. The claimant said that the SSHD’s failure to reduce the number of asylum seekers accommodated in Coventry more quickly and her placement of further asylum seekers were both unlawful. The SSHD accepted that the number of asylum seekers accommodated in Coventry should be reduced. 

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