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degrading treatment" and might well apply to pushing refugees off into the high seas (even despite the UK reservation of our right to apply immigration legislation to our dependent territories). I understand that Legal Advisers have minuted separately on this.
(d) Finally, there is the point I have made before. Abandonment of first asylum would do severe damage to the UK's standing on the whole range of international human rights issues.
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