Clause 10 - Unification of appeal system
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester, Liberal Democrat)
I welcome you to the afternoon session, Mrs. Roe. When we broke for lunch, I was completing a quotation from the Law Society. I quoted it to establish in the Committee's mind the concern among the legal profession about what they and I perceive to be a general break with principles. The principle about which the Law Society expressed concern was that in every other area of tribunal law, for example, the system allows for judicial review of the tribunal's work. The Minister helpfully said that he believed that this is the first case in which that principle has been broken. We had an exchange about how I believed that there had been a couple of prior instances of the principle of going to a higher court being taken away, but those had both been in cases that could be described as involving national security. The two cases that I had in mind were—