Woolas redux
Caroline Slocock, chief executive of the Refugee Legal Centre:
Woolas says: “One lady showed me the scars on her thighs from where the soldiers had raped her, so I know, but I cannot take a decision on that lady’s behalf if I am fogged by cases that are misusing the law.” The right decision can be a matter of life and death. Yet all too often asylum seekers are unable to get a lawyer, and the quality of Home Office decision-making is particularly poor. That is why there are so many appeals – and not, as Woolas claims, because “there is an industry out there [with] a vested interest”.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 at 8:52am under Human rights, New Labour
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