5 August 2005
The court today ruled that NASS could not evict the Khanali family from
their house in Bury, Greater Manchester.
NASS (the home office agency) did not follow the correct procedures,
even within its own inhumane law, and that the human rights of the
family have been ignored, including the right to family life enshrined
within the Human Rights Convention.
The court today ruled that NASS could not evict the Khanali family from
their house in Bury, Greater Manchester.
NASS (the home office agency) did not follow the correct procedures,
even within its own inhumane law, and that the human rights of the
family have been ignored, including the right to family life enshrined
within the Human Rights Convention.
The new Section 9 procedures have been introduced to force people seeking asylum either to go back to persecution in their original countries - "voluntarily"! - or else to put out of their homes and be split up from their children. However, they have received a strong setback today. In one of the very first cases, Bury Law Centre has succeeded in arguing that NASS (the home office agency) did not follow the correct procedures, even within its own inhumane law, and that the human rights of the family have been
ignored, including the right to family life enshrined within the Human Rights Convention.
The case has been remitted - meaning that the Home Office has been told
it cannot evict the family today.
Said John Nicholson, Practice Manager
"The Home Office has lost, in one of the first challenges to this inhumane
law. The Home Secretary should now take the opportunity to scrap this law. He should also use the compassionate grounds available to him to allow the family to stay, together, here in Bury, so that they can live and work and contribute to the local community in the same way as everyone else."
John Nicholson, Practice Manager
Bury Law Centre
8 Bank Street, Bury BL9 0DL
0161 272 0666
ignored, including the right to family life enshrined within the Human Rights Convention.
The case has been remitted - meaning that the Home Office has been told
it cannot evict the family today.
Said John Nicholson, Practice Manager
"The Home Office has lost, in one of the first challenges to this inhumane
law. The Home Secretary should now take the opportunity to scrap this law. He should also use the compassionate grounds available to him to allow the family to stay, together, here in Bury, so that they can live and work and contribute to the local community in the same way as everyone else."
John Nicholson, Practice Manager
Bury Law Centre
8 Bank Street, Bury BL9 0DL
0161 272 0666
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One in the eye for crap legislation!!
09.08.2005 08:10
The Home Secretary should now take the opportunity to scrap this law. He should also use the compassionate grounds available to him to allow the family to stay, together, here in Bury, so that they can live and work and contribute to the local community in the same way as everyone else."
I truly hope that the home secretary does so, but unfortunately, I don’t think this will happen. If this government ever really cared about the electorate or humanity it stopped doing so a long time ago.
Well done Bury Law centre - remember the time when law centres up and down the country had the time and resourses to do such good work?
Little fish