{"id":605533,"date":"2022-04-14T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/apr\/14\/boris-johnson-takes-pre-emptive-shot-at-lawyers-over-rwanda-scheme"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:43:51","slug":"boris-johnson-takes-pre-emptive-shot-at-lawyers-over-rwanda-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/14\/boris-johnson-takes-pre-emptive-shot-at-lawyers-over-rwanda-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson takes pre-emptive shot at lawyers over Rwanda scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysis: plan to send unauthorised migrants overseas is likely to be very difficult to defend in courts<\/p>

Detailing plans to send unauthorised migrants to Rwanda<\/a>, Boris Johnson managed to blame \u201cpolitically motivated lawyers\u201d for forcing the government to draw up such a drastic policy, and also for any future failure to implement it.<\/p>

By blaming them for Britain being seen as \u201ca soft touch for illegal migration\u201d, continuing a government narrative against \u201clefty lawyers\u201d<\/a>, many in the profession believe the prime minister is putting a fig leaf over a policy that is likely to be extremely difficult to defend in the courts and may end up at the European court of human rights.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Analysis: plan to send unauthorised migrants overseas is likely to be very difficult to defend in courtsDetailing plans to send unauthorised migrants to Rwanda, Boris Johnson managed to blame \u201cpolitically motivated lawyers\u201d for forcing the government t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,2816,6,3055,640,14,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605534,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605533\/revisions\/605534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}