Court of Appeal Overturns Epping Asylum Hotel Injunctionby Jasper GoldIn a recent post, we covered the High Court’s headline-making decision in Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited [2025] EWHC 2183 (KB) to grant an injunction preventing the Bell Hotel in Epping from being used to house Asylum Seekers. Nor, as the court was at pains to point out, was it about “the merits of Government policy in relation to the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, in hotels or otherwise.” ([7]). Intervention by the Home OfficeThe Court noted the Home Secretary’s duties to asylum seekers, including a duty to prevent destitution, and her general duties and “constitutional role” in relation to maintaining public safety. The Court concluded that the first instance decision was “seriously flawed in principle” and could be reviewed on appeal. Lucy Connolly, for example, has only just been released from prison after calling mass murder by arson of asylum seekers.