Home Office to ‘massively’ restrict courts’ ability to prevent deportations

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The Home Secretary will also make changes to how the Refugee Convention is applied, as well as the Modern Slavery Act, to address the issue of deportations of illegal migrants being blocked in the courts. However, the Government is not planning to follow a recommendation from the former Labour home secretary Jack Straw to formally “decouple” the ECHR from the Human Rights Act. Pushed on the details, he said: “It’s Article 3, or Article 8, they’re the two that are most immediately in play. But it’s more than that, it’s the refugee conventions, it’s the torture conventions, it’s conventions of the rights of children. “I believe in those instruments, I believe in the rule of law, and I think they matter.