Top barrister Steven Barrett has hit out at the Court of Appeal’s decision to allow asylum seekers to stay at a migrant hotel in Epping, Essex.
The bombshell ruling means asylum seekers will be allowed to stay at the Bell Hotel until a full trial can be heard.
Local residents have been protesting against the use of the Bell Hotel for illegal migrants and will likely take to the streets again in the wake of the verdict.
Speaking on GB News, Mr Barrett said the decision to overturn a temporary injunction against the hotel was a poor one.
Steven Barrett hit out at Lord Justice Bean’s ruling on GB News
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“I think it’s deeply flawed on its own terms. I think the good people of Epping will feel very aggrieved and I think the local council will feel very aggrieved”, he said.
“I think Mr Justice Ayre has a right to feel aggrieved by this dismissing of his reasoned 120-page judgment. They were very rude to him in their judgment. They didn’t let the Home Office join. In all the other preceding cases, the Home Office didn’t join, so it’s not normal for them to join.
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“He had the hearing on a Friday and gave judgment, so the interim case is finished. Then the Home Office make an application make an office on the Monday to join. That’s clearly incompetent. He told them to trot on and yet he was criticised for that.
“There was a very rude error. Firstly they lumped all the protesters together. They lumped the Antifa protesters together with the concerned local mothers, that’s not fair.
Steven Barrett joined Patrick Christys on GB News to discuss the ruling
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“They said all protesters together are all bad. They said the judge made a mistake imposing the injunction because it incentivised protests.
“After the injunction was granted, they stopped protesting in Epping, so it’s just not true.”
Patrick Christys said Mr Barrett made an “interesting point” and cited his own experience visiting Epping on the day the injunction was granted.
He said the only people present were locals and the “protests had stopped”.
Mr Barrett said: “Yes, this is logically irrational. The actions of Mr Justice Bean is going to incentivise protests. If he thinks he is going to shut down protests, that is not going to happen.
“They don’t seem to understand the actions of ordinary human beings. Obviously the people of Epping are going to be upset. I worry we have a self-selecting elite who don’t seem to understand that. Obviously they are going to protest.
“I think they will do so peacefully, because I have seen the good people of Epping.”
