University of Oxford publishes report on the criminalisation of small boat crossings

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The Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford has published a report entitled ‘no  such thing as justice here’ which looks at the criminalisation of people arriving to the UK on ‘small boats’ following the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NBA 2022) which expanded the scope of criminal offences to include ‘illegal arrival’ and the maximum sentence for ‘facilitation’ to life imprisonment. The data is taken from observations of over 100 court hearings, interviews with lawyers and people directly affected by the law and various freedom of information requests.