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Immigration detention — a shameful, inhumane system: Jed Pennington on how the Home Office fails to comply with the law

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  • This was the case of R (S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 50 (Admin)

  • This is the fifth time in three years that such a finding has been made by the Administrative Court

  • According to lawyers and NGOs working in this field, these are not isolated cases but illustrations of systemic failures in the way that mentally ill people are treated in the immigration detention system

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This was the case of R (S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 50 (Admin). According to lawyers and NGOs working in this field, these are not isolated cases but illustrations of systemic failures in the way that mentally ill people are treated in the immigration detention system.

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