Immigration Lawyers Physically Attacked Over ‘Dangerous’ Government Rhetoric: Charity

Home secretary and prime minister contacted over lawyer safety fears

Home Secretary Suella Braverman tours a building site on the outskirts of Kigali during her visit to Rwanda, to see houses that are being constructed that could eventually house deported migrants from the UK, on March 18, 2023. PA

Immigration lawyers have been subjected to physical attacks over the government and media’s “climate of hostility” towards practitioners, a legal charity has claimed.

The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) said the violent assaults have been in direct response to the “vilification” of migrant and asylum legal representatives by government figures and the press.