Migrants handed record levels of legal aid to fight their deportation - paid for by YOU
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Migrants are being handed record levels of taxpayer-funded legal aid to fight their deportation, official figures have revealed.
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The number of immigration cases sniffing out aid to appeal Home Office decisions has skyrocketed from 234 in 2013/14 to 2,200 in 2024/25 - an almost tenfold increase in a decade.
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Migrants have been found to be invoking the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a bid to get around rules against them accessing free legal aid in cases not deemed to be "exceptional".Human rights laws allow for them to secure thousands of pounds in legal support to challenge Home Office bids to deport them or block them from bringing their relatives into the country.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The funding is provided to migrants through a programme called Exceptional Case Funding (ECF).It was ushered in by the coalition Government in 2012 following the decision to block taxpayer-funded legal aid for the majority of immigration cases.
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