Carralyn Parkes wants a High Court judge to conclude she has an 'arguable case' against Home Secretary Suella Braverman and to give her the go-ahead to challenge the lawfulness of the use of floating accommodation in Dorset.
A mayor has begun a legal challenge to stop asylum seekers from being housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge. Carralyn Parkes wants a High Court judge to conclude she has an 'arguable case' against Home Secretary Suella Braverman and to give her the go-ahead to challenge the lawfulness of the use of the barge in Portland Harbour, Dorset.
'She is deeply concerned by the planned accommodation of around 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge by the , especially by the fact that the proceeded on the basis that she did not require planning permission and without any adequate consultation with the local community,' Alex Goodman KC, who is leading Ms Parkes' legal team, told the judge in a written case outline on Tuesday. 'The public importance of the claim is self-evident.
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