Public-led judging of immigration appeals may be 'dominated by migration activists', commentator warns
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Journalist David Shipley has warned that Shabana Mahmood's plan to have members of the public oversee asylum appeals will be "dominated" by "migration activists".Speaking to GB News, Mr Shipley said: "I think I would probably trust the the average member of the great British public actually to be better than the average migration judge.
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But I think the problem with this system is it will not be 12 average people.
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It will be no doubt dominated by a migration activists who will aggressively pursue these jobs.
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They will be keen to let everyone in, and it will be, I think, probably even worse than we have now, because they will still be bound by the Human Rights Act framework, the equality law, which applies sometimes to migration cases as well.
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All of that is still going to apply here.
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