The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an alliance of top law firms including Baker McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Allen & Overy, in a case against the UK government’s contentious Rwanda deportation policy. This decision affirms that the ruling by the Court of Appeal against the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was lawful.
The now-contested policy proposed the deportation of illegal immigrants or asylum seekers to Rwanda, where their claims would be processed, and if approved, subsequently resettled. The collaboration of prominent human rights and civil law firms coupled with top-tier corporate law firms testifies to the significance of the legal and human rights issues tangled within this policy.
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