UK court rules Home Secretary Mahmood's cuts to trafficking protections unlawful

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Asylum seekers win ruling against home secretary’s reduction of safeguards for potential victims of trafficking

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The British home secretary’s decision to reduce protections for potential trafficking victims to allow the “one in, one out” asylum returns deal to proceed was unlawful, a high court judge has ruled.

The legal challenge was brought by five small boat asylum seekers earmarked for return to France – four from Eritrea and one from Sudan. It related to a change in guidance on the one in, one out scheme , which meant that those denied trafficking protections no longer had the right to ask for it to be reconsidered.

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