Jonathan Swift (judge)

Sir Jonathan Mark Swift (born 11 September 1964)[1] is a British High Court judge.Swift was born in Rochford, England and educated at Southend High School for Boys.[1] On 1 October 2018, Swift was appointed a High Court judge, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[4][1] On 10 June 2022, Swift ruled in favour of the UK Government that the deportation flights of unsuccessful asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda should be allowed to proceed, as there was material public interest in doing so.[6] On 8 June 2023, Swift ruled in favour of the UK Government, and rejected the appeal of political prisoner Julian Assange's legal team, which had filed two appeals before the court against then UK Home Secretary Priti Patel's decision to extradite Wikileaks founder being indicted by the United States under the Espionage Act.
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