Compensation for people detained under the Rwanda scheme?

The new Government has announced both the end of the Rwanda scheme and that it will now decide the asylum claims in the UK of individuals who were told they might be sent to Rwanda. This is welcome news but what about the detentions? Many people were deprived of their liberty on arriving in this country at the end of dangerous journey. The Court of Appeal ruled in June 2023 that the Rwanda scheme was unlawful; the Supreme Court agreed in November 2023.  The Government changed the law and earlier this year the Home Office again began to detain people in readiness to send them to Rwanda.  No one ever was.  These detentions may well have been unlawful and the people affected entitled to compensation.  The Public Law team was at the forefront of challenges to the Rwanda scheme and are experts in bringing claims for compensation against the State. If you arrived in the UK after 1 January 2022, received a ‘notice of intent’ that you might be sent to Rwanda and were detained at any point we would like to hear from you.

Please email public@wilsonllp.co.uk and we will be in touch.

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