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Ruling gives 'failed' asylum-seekers free healthcare

reposter | 14.04.2008 17:11 | Anti-racism | Migration

Thousands of failed asylum-seekers won the right to free healthcare yesterday, when the High Court ruled that restrictions on NHS treatment were unlawful.

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Richard Ford, Home Correspondent, The Times, Saturday 12th April 2008
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3732002.ece



The court victory by a Palestinian, known only as A, was the latest of several judicial rulings against Government policies this week.

Regulations barring failed asylum-seekers from receiving free NHS treatment while they wait to be sent home were declared unlawful by Mr Justice Mitting.

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