Home Office failed to provide adequate facilities for wheelchair user

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• Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

The claimant, a Kenyan wheelchair user whose claims for asylum had been refused, was detained pending removal, first, at an immigration removal centre run by the first defendant, the Home Office, and then in a centre operated by the second defendant under government contract.

He brought a claim under section 19 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for damages, alleging discrimination in the provision of services at both establishments, namely the reception procedures, access to toilet ... (244 more words)

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