Foreign national prisoners facing deportation have won permission to bring test case appeals against new laws aimed at removing them from the UK as quickly as possible. The landmark human rights cases involve two convicted drug offenders who face removal - even though they have launched legal actions to block being deported. They are the first to come before the Court of Appeal challenging the lawfulness of Home Secretary Theresa May's new "deport first, appeal later" regime. Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, sitting with Lord Justice Underhill, gave the men permission to appeal, saying their cases raise issues of wide importance and should be heard by a three-judge court as soon as possible....
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