A neighborhood councillor has misplaced a Excessive Courtroom struggle with Dwelling Secretary Suella Braverman over the housing of asylum seekers on a barge.
Carralyn Parkes needed to problem the lawfulness of the usage of the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland Harbour, Dorset.
A decide dominated on Wednesday that Mrs Parkes, a member of Portland City Council and the mayor of Portland, didn’t have an debatable case.
Mr Justice Holgate had thought-about arguments at a Excessive Courtroom listening to in London on Tuesday.
Mrs Parkes stated she is “deeply involved” by the Authorities’s “deliberate lodging” on the Bibby Stockholm and had made challenges regarding planning and equality laws.
Attorneys representing Mrs Braverman stated Mrs Parkes’s claims must be dismissed.
Mrs Parkes, who’s from Liverpool, argued housing asylum seekers on the barge was a “breach of planning management” and stated there had not been “compliance” with environmental influence evaluation duties.
She additionally argued Mrs Braverman had not complied with duties underneath the 2010 Equality Act.
Attorneys representing Mrs Braverman stated the problem was made to a choice taken in April to deal with “destitute asylum seekers on a specifically tailored” barge.
They argued Mrs Parkes’s declare was “out of time”, “with out benefit” and stated the decide ought to refuse to present permission for the problem to proceed to a trial.
Authorities legal professionals stated the native planning authority didn’t assume planning permission was required.
In addition they argued there was no “basic precept” that housing “non-British asylum seekers” collectively on a vessel was “illegal” underneath a public sector equality responsibility.
Mrs Parkes is represented by legislation agency DPG (Deighton Pierce Glynn).
Attorneys stated afterwards that they may contemplate their subsequent steps.