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“Mother of all Ouster Clauses” removed from asylum Bill.

Monday 15 March 2004 at 11:27 pm | In News | Post Comment

Tonight the government has backed down on the “ouster clause” in the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill. The clause threatened a constitutional conflict between the government and the judiciary. Lord Woolf had expressed his displeasure in a speech at Cambridge last week; the proposals had been widely condemned.

“I am prepared … to replace the judicial review ouster with a new system allowing oversight by the administrative court in those decisions,” said Lord Falconer.

News report here