First legal challenge lodged against ‘one in, one out’ migrant return deal

An Eritrean man who came to the UK by a small boat made a legal claim in the Supreme Court to stop the removal of France on Wednesday.

The 25 -year -old child, who came to England on August 12, would be returned under the new ‘One In, Out’ pilot scheme agreed between England and France.

The first legal challenge against the agreement in London, his lawyers who initiated the first legal challenge, argued that when he was deported to France, he was “a real risk of poverty”.

Kate Grange KC said that the Ministry of Interior could request asylum in France and that there is no evidence that return is not a safe country. The judge is expected to rule later today.

The articles on the Supreme Court show that the man, defined as “NST”, left Ethiopia for Europe two years ago and came to Italy in April 2025.

A month later, he went to France and was supported by charities, including Red Cross, his mother paid $ 1,400 ($ 1,024) to smugglers for the passage of channel to England.

The court said that the first screening interview with the British authorities was not exploited and paid as a worker in Libya.

When asked why he was not looking for asylum before he came to England, NST said that people who sleep on the streets in Europe see and concluded that they were not supported.

Authorities, human trade gangs are not under the control of asylum, he said.

However, Sonali Naik KC, representing the NST, said that the Ministry of Interior has not yet evaluated whether the client’s client is a victim of human trafficking, and that sending it to France was not to evaluate whether it left him poor.

Justice Sheldon said the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has decided that temporary rude sleep has not turned into humiliating treatment.

The first returns of immigrants who reached England on small boats through the British channel were expected to begin on Tuesday.

Downing Street insisted that the lifting would start “extremely” – even though the first plans for flight to Paris today have been taken back.

‘One, One Out’ plan was founded in July this year as part of an agreement announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron. Since then, dozens of immigrants have been detained.

For the last two weeks, some immigrants held in immigrant lifting centers received letters that they would be put on a planned Air France flight that left the Heathrow Airport for Paris at 9 pm this morning.

However, some sources told the BBC that some of the potential passengers will be postponed because more representations have been made about their cases.

If the authorities are warned by lawyers that they do not have a complete or fair opportunity to submit their cases, it is not unusual to postpone immigration.

In accordance with the new treaty, France agreed to take back adults or accompanying children who traveled to England with a small boat when any asylum claim was recycled or declared unacceptable.

For each person who has been sent back to France, the UK will accept someone who does not try to cross the British channel and has a protection case as a refugee who can pass the security and conformity criteria.

The BBC understands that immigrants living in the Calais region, which applied to the plan, were rejected – but asylum seekers in the Paris region were accepted.

The government did not confirm how many people would be returned or transported per week within the scope of the plan, but the former Interior Secretary Yette Cooper stressed that he works on a trial basis..

Other factors that may have played a role in the delay include whether France is ready to take back, and on the UK side, the security status controls of any potential real refugees.

The Ministry of the Interior began to detain some small boat immigrants because they were not suitable for asylum on 6 August, because they spent time in a safe third country.

Within the scope of the program, officials in London direct each potential return case to the French authorities. There are two weeks to answer the French authorities – before starting the process of proposing who should come to England.

The program is one of the series of measures aimed at cope by the government with small boat transitions.

However, the conservatives argued that he would not see enough immigrants who were deported to act as an important deterrent.

The ministers did not put a figure under the pilot that how many people would be returned to France.

This year, more than 30,000 people have passed the channel on small boats.

The oldest point in a calendar year has been spent since the first notification of the data about this number transitions in 2018.