Epping hotel ruling a win for Ministers

THE Government won a major legal victory last night, as it vowed to shut all asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament.

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN

In a bombshell ruling, senior judges overturned a ban on housing asylum seekers at a hotel in Epping, Essex, which risked plunging the asylum system into chaos.

The Court of Appeal scrapped an injunction that would have forced 138 migrants at the Bell Hotel to leave by September 12.

It marks a victory for the Home Office, which had been braced for a flurry of legal challenges from other councils.