Government wants right to appeal landmark asylum seeker hotel ruling
Friday, 22 August 2025 () The government has taken the first step in appealing a court's decision that asylum seekers cannot be housed in an Essex hotel.
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The government is legally obligated to house asylum-seekers. Using hotels to do so had been a marginal issue until 2020, when the number of asylum-seekers increased sharply and the then-Conservative government had to...
The Home Office will appeal the High Court's refusal to allow it to intervene in the case of a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Epping, but says it remains committed to ultimately closing the..