Home Office publishes High Court Order on unlawful mobile phone policy

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The Home Office has published on GOV.UK a High Court Order detailing the outcome of a claim which has found numerous aspects of the Home Office’s search for, seizure and retention of mobile phones from migrants who arrived in the UK by small boats to be unlawful. The order was made by the Right Honourable Lord Justice Edis and the Honourable Mr Justice Lane, in relation to the joined claims of R(HM) v SSHD CO/4793/2020 and R(MA and KH) v SSHD, Privacy International intervening CO/577/2021. The substantive decision on the claims was issued on 25 March 2022, [2022] EWHC 695 (Admin), [2022] All ER(D) 63 (Apr). The order was issued following a separate hearing covering remedy and the issue of the duty of candour. No further judgment has yet been published in that context.