On 9th July the High Court of England and Wales ruled that a system for fast-tracking asylum claims has ‘serious failings’ and is therefore being operated unlawfully by the government.
The Detained Fast-Track (DFT) system keeps asylum-seekers in detention while a decision on their case is quickly processed by the Home Office. It is used for approximately one-fifth of people claiming asylum in the UK.
The Judge, while not finding that the system itself was unlawful, declared that the following elements of it were unfair: