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• The Home Office must show more humanity to torture survivors | Letter

  29-11-2019 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The supreme court’s ruling that the Home Office ‘falsely imprisoned’ desperate people fleeing persecution is a scathing indictment, writes Natasha Tsangarides, senior policy adviser at Freedom from TortureThe supreme court’s ruling that the Home Office “falsely imprisoned” desperate people fleeing persecution (Report, 28 November) is a scathing indictment of Home Office practices. The catastrophic failures carry an economic cost, but more importantly, a human
  
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• Landmarks in law: the Brexit court ruling that thwarted Boris Johnson

  29-11-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  By declaring the prorogation of parliament to be unlawful, the Supreme Court made a decision with huge legal consequencesIt’s not often that a case about constitutional news grabs the attention of the public. But in September 2019, more than 30 million people tuned in to watch the proceedings live on the Supreme Court’s website as 11 justices unanimously ruled that the prime minister had “unlawfully” prorogued parliament for five weeks in the run up to the 31 October Brex
  
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