hostile environment

A major review of the hostile environment finds that most elements of ‘excessive policy’ that led to the Windrush Scandal are still in place. 

The report says a culture of tolerance to ill-treatment and even torture has developed in the last five years, and the situation has got worse, not better.

The lower courts were wrong to override the conclusions of a medical expert when considering forensic evidence of torture in an asylum claim, the Supreme Court has ruled.