Lead member
Matt Vickers
Conservative, Stockton West
Commons
Decision
No decision
The House has not considered this amendment.
Amendment text
To move the following Clause—
“Immigration Tribunal: hearings in public
(1)
The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 is amended as follows.
(2)
In Schedule 5, after subsection 5, insert—
“(5A)
All hearings of the Tribunal must be heard in public, and all decisions delivered in public,””
Member's explanatory statement
This new clause would require all rulings in the Lower Tier immigration tribunal to be heard in public.