Asylum Seekers: Medical Treatment

Countess of Mar Excerpts

Monday 14th February 2011 Lords Chamber

[Noble Lords]

Oh!

[The Countess of Mar]

My Lords, I speak as a former member of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal. Does the noble Earl agree that there is a large amount of case law relating to the returning of asylum seekers who are sick to their own countries, and that on the whole the tribunal abides by this case law?

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I did not catch the noble Countess’s last point.

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[The Countess of Mar]

There is a large amount of case law that, on the whole, the tribunal abides by in reaching its assessments.

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, yes.