Clause 10 - Unification of appeal system
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
10:00 am
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Tottenham, Labour)
I cannot speak about the figures that my hon. Friend quoted as they are not in front of me, but I shall speak about the process. He says that of the cases that had a judicial review, 30 per cent. were successful, but he must bear in mind that the fact of a judicial review does not mean ultimately that the applicant is successful in making his case to stay in this country because he is an asylum seeker. The point is that a judicial review, considering a particular error of law, determined most frequently that the case should go back, or corrected a mistake that had been made in the previous tribunal. That mistake may not have been substantial enough to entitle the applicant to remain in this country. That is—