R (European Roma Rights Centre) v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport

R (European Roma Rights Centre) v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport [2004] UKHL 55 is a UK asylum case concerning Article 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.The case concerned itself with the lawfulness of actions taken by British immigration personnel stationed in Prague.So, applying Nagarajan v London Regional Transport,[2] they were treated less favourably on racial grounds, contrary to domestic and international law.The motive for such discrimination is irrelevant.Baroness Hale also said that the "object of the legislation is to ensure that each person is treated as an individual and not assumed to be like other members of the group."The appeal, however, failed in that there was no international law that required the Roma to be allowed into the country before they applied for asylum.
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