Home Office faces legal cases over Zimbabwean asylum seekers The Home Office faces a series of legal challenges over its decision to allow Zimbabwean government officials to interview people from the country who are seeking asylum in the UK. The government was criticised earlier this year for working with the Zimbabwean state to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers after Robert Mugabe was forced from power, despite continuing human rights abuses in the country. The Guardian   Ethical veganism is a protected belief, rules Employment Tribunal In what multiple commentators have hailed as a landmark legal case, Norwich Employment Tribunal found that the Claimant’s “ethical veganism” is a philosophical belief and therefore a protected characteristic for the purposes of section 10 of the Equality Act 2010 following a preliminary hearing on 2nd and 3rd January 2020. The judgment is unlikely to be available for some time, so it is not yet possible to analyse t...

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