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[Viral_Jim]

To enter illegally and then try to claim asylum should render the asylum request null and void. Especially if the person has passed through several safe places to reach the UK.

Refugees are not (and I don't believe ever have been) required by any law to seek asylum in the first safe country that they enter/pass through. 

[Doctor Gollum]

To enter illegally and then try to claim asylum should render the asylum request null and void. Especially if the person has passed through several safe places to reach the UK.

Refugees are not (and I don't believe ever have been) required by any law to seek asylum in the first safe country that they enter/pass through. 

Well that's clearly something to be addressed.

[Sir Tigger KC]

And AIUI that's the point of the ECtHR ruling - these deportations shouldn't happen until all legal process has been exhausted. If the Judicial review rules that the policy is unlawful, then the deportations won't happen. If it rules they are lawful then that impediment will fall away.

Yes, and when you look at it in that light, the ECHR's ruling seems quite sensible.  What's the point in deporting people to Rwanda, when you'll have to bring them back when the Judicial Review decrees that the policy is unlawful.  Which is quite likely. 

I don't believe for one minute that the Govt thought they'd get away with this policy without it being challenged in the courts. The timing is strange though - it's almost as if there was some important by-election next week and the Govt are looking to stir up their supporters with faux outrage.

Tre cynical there Malc?