Win some, lose some
David Blunkett's new plans for shaking up Britain's asylum system may have suffered an immediate setback in the House of Lords on Thursday but on the same day he won an important High Court judgement on another aspect of his immigration policies. Liberty, the human rights group, brought a legal challenge on behalf of six Czech Roma people who had been refused entry to Britain after being screened by UK immigration officials at Prague airport. Liberty argued that such screening at the point of departure of wouldbe asylum seekers was disciminatory and against the international refugee convention and human rights laws; it said that there were no safeguards in place to ensure that there was no racial stereotyping of profiling by the immigration staff.
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