Asylum ruling overturned

Title

Asylum ruling overturned

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

3 Feb 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:03:34

Description

Legal affairs correspondent Tim Crook reports on a Court of Appeal decision reversing the earlier High Court decision which found the Home Office was acting unlawfully by detaining people who claimed political asylum; case concerned four men - Rehmat Khan, from Pakistan, and Parmjett Singh Virk, Inderpal Singh and Pal Taggar, from India – who according to the original ruling were being illegally detained; interviews with Sibghat Kadri, QC; Claude Moraes, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; Pal Taggar.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Sibghat Kadri; Claude Moraes; Pal Taggar

Keywords

Trials; Rehmat Khan; Parmjett Singh Virk; Inderpal Singh; Pal Taggar; Asylum seekers

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