1 R (on the application of S, D, T) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2003] EWHC 1941 (Admin), 31 July 2003. On 23 September 2003, the Court of Appeal allowed the Home Of.ce’s appeal in respect of one of the asylum seekers. For the facts of these cases see below, text and note 16.
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2 R v Secretary of State for Social Services ex parte Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants [1996] 4 All ER 385.
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3 See, for example, Another Country: implementing dispersal under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, (Audit Commission, June 2000); ‘The dispersal of xenophobia’, European Race Bulletin (Nos. 33/34, 2000); ‘Asylum seekers, welfare and the politics of deterrence’, European Race Bulletin (No. 38, 2001); ‘Return of the numbers game’, CARF (No. 52, October/November 1999); ‘Asylum-dispersal-detentionxenophobia’, CARF (No. 55, April/May 2000); ‘The asylum system – who Profits?’, CARF (No. 57, August/September 2000); ‘Asylum policy kills’, CARF (No. 60, February/March 2001); Liz Fekete, ‘The emergence of xeno-racism’, Race & Class (Vol. 43, no. 2, 2001), pp. 23–40.
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4 Asylum seekers and health ( British Medical Association , October 2002).
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5 Migration and HIV Report: improving lives in Britain, All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS (July 2003).
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6 Jenny McLeish, Mothers in exile: maternity experiences of asylum seekers in England (Maternity Alliance, March 2002).
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7 R (on the application of T) v Secretary of State for Health and NASS, 29 July 2002.
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8 See IRR online news service for recent stories www.irr.org.uk and see ‘The crimes of NASS’, CARF (No. 64, October/November 2001).
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9 R (on the application of Gezer) v NASS %5B2003%5D EWHC Admin; ‘UK should hang its head in shame over treatment of asylum seekers’, www.ncadc.org.uk, 17 April 2003.
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10 R (on the application of Gezer), loc.cit.
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11 ‘Asylum service criticised’, Guardian (16 July 2003); ‘National Asylum Support Service – the way forward’, Home Of.ce Press Release 032/2003 (15 July 2003).
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12 The number of asylum claims rose fairly steadily up to the end of 2002. Home Of.ce Asylum Statistics, First Quarter 2003.
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13 Home Of.ce Asylum Statistics, First Quarter 2003.
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14 R (Q and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2003] EWHC 195 (Admin), 19 February 2003.
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15 R (Q and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2003] EWCA Civ 364, 18 March 2003.
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16 R (S, D, T) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (see note 1 above); R (T) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2003] EWCA Civ 1285.
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17 ‘Destitute: asylum seekers pushed on to the street by an of.cial letter’, Guardian (18 August 2003).
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18 ‘Cut health care for illegal migrants says Byers’, Guardian (31 July 2003).
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19 Ibid.
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20 Lord Chancellor’s Department/Department of Constitutional Affairs, ‘Proposed changes to publicly funded immigration and asylum work’ (June 2003).
