20 November 2019
Serco lock change evictions – appeal plans underway amid fears of winter destitution
press statement – for immediate release Mike Dailly, Solicitor Advocate at Govan Law Centre said: “Govan Law Centre has been instructed to make an application to the Inner House of the Court of Session to seek permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court in the case of Ali v. Serco…
13 November 2019
Serco to lock out 20 refugees and asylum seekers each week – lawyers to consider appeal to U.K. Supreme Council
Court of session refuses due process for Glasgow’s refugees and asylum seekers Refugee charities have warned that a dangerous precedent has been set for the state to avoid human-rights obligations after Scotland’s highest court ruled that the evictions of refused asylum seekers by the housing provider…
8 November 2019
Response to Asylum data released by Migration Observatory
New data released by the Migration Observatory – based in Oxford University – finds that the majority of asylum seekers are being housed in disadvantaged local authority areas, while dozens of wealthy councils support none, and face long delays to their claims being decided, but more than half are…