Lawyers for Borders is a cross-party movement, bringing together lawyers who believe in securing our borders and ending illegal migration. Our first campaign is helping patriotic councils and communities to resist asylum hotels. If you need help or are a lawyer, get in touch.

Disgraceful. You won by stating that the right of illegal migrants to free hotels is more important than the rights of the British people.

@EppingTories @eppingforestdc We’re now in touch with @EppingTories and @eppingforestdc, thank you to those that helped. Councils elsewhere: if an asylum hotel is operating in your area, we’ll help you shut it down – fast and lawfully. DM @LawForBorders. Let’s end the asylum hotels fiasco.

Still trying to wrap our heads around how scrapping the injunction reduces protests. If closing the hotel “incentivises” protests, what do you think keeping it open does? Make it make sense.

The question of shutting down the Bell Hotel for asylum use will soon be reconsidered in October with a full trial. @EppingTories and @eppingforestdc our team of legal volunteers are on hand and willing to support in any way we can. Our DMs are open.

This is a fact-specific loss, not a green light for asylum hotels. Councils still have tools: .- Targeted s.187B injunctions with stronger evidence; and .– s.183 stop notices where the use is recent. Reach out for support, we’ll triage your case.

Judgment being handed down in Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Ltd. 🔴 Watch live: .

So the key questions for the Court are:. • When should the SoS be joined/intervene in 187B hotel cases?.• How far may a judge factor relative planning merits into the balance of convenience?.• Can protest-related impacts be part of the “planning harm” matrix?.

Epping Forest DC’s submissions:. Material change of use from C1 hotel to hostel/sui generis is strongly arguable. Circumstances changed mid-2025 (community impact), making injunction necessary pending a speedy final hearing. The judge was entitled to grant interim relief.

Somani Hotels’ submissions:. 187B is exceptional - use has run for years; ordinary planning enforcement was available; the real trigger was protest/public order, which is not a planning harm justifying 187B. On the merits, at most there’s a triable issue - no more.

SoS also argues hotels are a necessary part of meeting legal duties to avoid destitution; shutting one node risks displacement and disorder - factors the court should weigh at interim stage. They seek the court to allow intervention and discharge the order.

@ukhomeoffice submissions:. Refusing SoS joinder/intervention was wrong given statutory accommodation duties; the High Court gave excessive weight to planning merits; balance of convenience should preserve capacity in a national system under strain.

The law:. s.187B gives the court original jurisdiction to grant injunctions to restrain actual/planned planning breaches. Interim relief turns on seriousness + balance of convenience – not a mini-trial on planning merits.

Background:. High Court (Eyre J, 19 Aug) granted an interim injunction restraining use pending trial, finding a serious issue on whether the use was a material change needing permission.

Yesterday, the Home Office and Somani Hotels challenged the interim planning injunction that stopped use of the Bell Hotel for asylum accommodation (TCPA s.187B). A reasoned judgment is expected today at 2pm, here’s a summary of the case and the parties submissions 👇.

NEW: In the Epping case the Court of Appeal confirms they will publish a reasoned judgment tomorrow, aiming for 2PM.

Live coverage here 👇.

The @attorneygeneral likes to remind us that lawyers aren’t their clients. So let’s be clear: this is His Majesty’s Government saying the rights of asylum seekers come before the people of Epping.

For those following, it’s worth noting that interim injunction appeals are a hard ask. The Court of Appeal rarely disturbs a first instance exercise of discretion absent error of principle or a decision that is plainly wrong. The Home Secretary clearly thinks otherwise….

RT @LawForBorders: Considering taking action to shut down an asylum hotel in your area?. Here’s the Lawyers for Borders guide👇 https://t.co….

Today 10:00 – Court of Appeal (Court 71): . The Home Office and Somani Hotels seek permission to appeal the Epping injunction. We’ll be watching the submissions carefully.