Rishi Sunak’s small boat law must block Euro judges’ rulings to succeed, legal experts claim
RISHI Sunak’s small boat law must block rulings from the European Court of Human Rights to succeed, legal experts say.
If not, it will leave attempts to deport migrants wide open to legal challenges, they believe.
The PM is preparing to reveal legislation so that anyone who comes to Britain via small boat will have no rights to stay.
It is expected to give Home Secretary Suella Braverman a new legal duty to remove people who come here illegally.
Policy Exchange think tank experts say the law must make it clear that coming here on small boats is not an option for migrants.
But it will work only if it specifically states that parts of the Human Rights and Modern Slavery Acts will not apply.
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And it must make clear it will ignore rulings from Strasbourg on the issue and push on with the strategy regardless.
Oxford University Professor Richard Ekins KC, who co-wrote the report, said that if the law did not do so, it was at risk of being pulled apart by both British and European courts.
“The Government and Parliament can and should choose otherwise,” the professor added.
A spokesman for the Government insisted: “We are going to introduce new laws which will make sure that those people arriving in the UK illegally are detained and swiftly removed to another country.”
