15 October 2015
The government’s response to the Syria refugee crisis has been “too low, too slow and too narrow”, according to a statement published by 300 senior lawyers and judges. Lord Phillips, the former President of the Supreme Court, Lord Woolf, Lord Steyn, Lord Walker, and Sir Nicholas Bratza, the former president of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as more than 100 QCs, were among those criticising the government’s decision to take in only 20,000 refugees over a five-year period.
