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Three appeal judges described the previous judgment as ‘seriously flawed in principle’ and said the hotel could continue to be used to house migrants.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Accommodating those who must wait for the Home Office to work through a backlog of claims will inevitably risk unpopularity. But now the government has won its appeal against the closure of one protest-hit Epping hotel, Yvette Cooper must be allowed to proceed with phasing out…

Temporary injunction has been set aside but council’s challenge will still proceed to a trial

Labour grandee Lord Falconer tells PM to take action over migrant crisis after government won Court of Appeal challenge over Epping hotel

A temporary injunction that was set to block asylum seekers from being housed at a hotel in Epping, Essex was overturned at the Court of Appeal.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir Starmer ‘puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people’.

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Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, challenged a temporary injunction at the Court of Appeal.

THE Home Office has won an appeal to overturn a temporary ban on housing asylum seekers at a hotel which has been plagued with far-right protests.

The local council has said it is ‘ruling nothing out’ following the Court of Appeal decision

Judges say decision to allow injunction was ‘seriously flawed’ and contained several ‘errors in principle’