The government has won its appeal against a high court decision that ruled the detention of four asylum seekers at its Oakington Immigration Centre in Cambridgeshire was illegal.
The original legal ruling by Mr Justice Collins had threatened to derail the government's fast-track immigration policy and open the way for compensation claims costing millions of pounds for the illegal detention by asylum seekers.
The court of appeal's decision to overturn the ruling means the government's policy to use such centres to house asylum seekers whose claims are undecided can now go ahead.
Lawyers for the four Iraqi Kurds who brought the action against the centre were granted permission to take the case to the House of Lords.
Jersey: Simon Bellwood 'unfairly sacked' inquiry finds
Councils failing to implement government guidance issued in 2002, study says
Threat of action called off until September in bid to end dispute
Lone parents, disabled and drug users face tougher benefits regime
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