14 Mar 2021 Boris Johnson’s government is claiming that upcoming legislation will stop lawyers from blocking deportations by resorting to “meritless” judicial reviews of immigration tribunal decisions. A spokesman for the government, which has talked tough on immigration and foreign criminals but presided over a 79 per cent fall in deportations of foreign criminals in 2020, said new laws “will end the industrial use of judicial review to the High Court with hopeless claims that have already been adjudicated by tribunal judges which frustrate removals at the last minute.” Of 5,500 judicial reviews since 2012, a mere 12 — 0.2 per cent of cases — were actually successful, with the “vast majority” of referrals being immigration and asylum cases, according to