LAST YEAR, A DIVISIONAL Court of the High Court, comprised of a lord justice (a regular judge of the Court of Appeal) and a High Court judge, ruled that the government’s Rwanda plan was lawful.
On 29 June, the Court of Appeal reversed the High Court’s ruling and declared the plan unlawful. The Lord Chief Justice would have upheld the High Court’s decision; but he was outvoted by the Master of the Rolls and another lord justice.
In other words, of the five senior judges who have heard
