Continued detention of failed asylum-seeker is lawful
Regina (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“The continued detention, pending deportation, of a failed asylum-seeker after the end of a term of imprisonment because the safety of the public would be at risk and there was a high risk that he would abscond, was not unlawful.”
The Times, 5th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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