Home Office unlawfully failing to protect trafficking survivors from hostile environment, says High Court (Multiple Sources) (4 December 2020)

The High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s failure to prevent potential victims of trafficking from being treated as illegal immigrants is in breach of the law. A damning judgement on Thursday concluded that people waiting for their modern slavery claims to be concluded were being stripped of immigration status due to an “unlawful lacuna” in existing policy. Duncan Lewis Solicitors spokesperson comments: “The UK, through anti-slavery legislation and ratification of international conventions, has committed itself to the protection of victims as well as the prevention of trafficking and modern slavery but Home Office policy, as currently implemented, fails to deliver this.”