Deported Tamils win right to return

Title

Deported Tamils win right to return

Genre

Interview

TX Date

27 Jul 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:51

Description

Margaret Shiels interviews solicitor David Burgess about a High Court decision ordering the UK Government to allow 5 asylum-seeking Sri Lankan Tamils who were deported from the UK to return. The judges held that Home Secretary Douglas Hurd had no right to appeal against an adjudicators decision the five should be allowed back into the country. Hurd has 24 hours in which to appeal. The five Tamils are: Saravamuthu Sivakumaran, Navaratnasingam Vathanan, Vythialingam Skandarajah, Nadarajah Vilarajah, and Vinasithamby Rasalingam.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels; David Burgess

Keywords

Deportation; UK; Great Britain; Immigrants; Legal decisions; Trials; Ethnic groups; Sri Lanka; Asian peoples; Asylum seekers; Home Office; Tamils; High courts; Saravamuthu Sivakumaran; Navaratnasingam Vathanan; Vythialingam Skandarajah; Nadarajah Vilarajah; Vinasithamby Rasalingam

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