Having written about asylum detention yesterday, an interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment caught my eye today. Father Seraphim Vänttinen-Newton, a Russian Orthodox priest, has won his appeal for unfair dismissal against GEO Group, the private firm that runs Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre (or "removal centre", as the UK Borders Agency website calls it).

It's frustrating and dispiriting to read the judgment in R (Rostami) v Home Secretary. And I think difficult to work out what you think about the problem of asylum detention generally.

Today the Lords gave judgment in AH (Sudan), an important asylum case involving a “country guidance” decision from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, but specifically on the question of internal relocation: whether it’s reasonable to expect a refugee subject […]