Notification of special arrangements (court letter) (accessible)
Updated 29 April 2024
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Operational Support and Certification Unit
17th Floor, Lunar House
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY
Oludotun Onasanya
Operations Manager
Administrative Court Office
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
[DATE]
Dear Oludotun
Enforced removals to [DESTINATION COUNTRY] by [CHOSE ONE: Special Arrangements/Safe Third Country] flight on [INSERT DATE]
The Home Office intends to operate a flight to [ARRIVAL CITY], [DESTINATION COUNTRY]. The flight will have capacity for up to [X] persons liable to removal. As this is a flight to which Special Arrangements apply the aircraft may have to close its doors and move away from the stand shortly before the allocated time to comply with the departure slot. This could be up to 30 minutes before the departure slot.
Those individuals whom the Home Office intends to remove to [COUNTRY] will have been notified of their liability to be removed to [COUNTRY]. All persons to whom the special arrangements policy applies, will have been served with a letter notifying them of these arrangements no less than five working days prior to removal from the United Kingdom informing them that they are to be removed by a flight to which the special arrangements policy applies. The special arrangements policy is set out in the Immigration Enforcement general instruction on judicial reviews and injunctions, which can be found on the gov.uk website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/returns-preparation
The special arrangements policy will not be applied to returnees on the flight who have not been served with a notification. Judicial reviews lodged by persons not subject to the special arrangements policy will be considered under the relevant section of the Immigration Enforcement General Instructions (IEGI) on judicial reviews and injunctions.
If the Court issues an injunction for a person on the flight, this should be notified to the Home Office’s Operational Support and Certification Unit (OSCU) or the National Command and Control Unit (NCCU) as per the instructions to judges considering urgent applications, by email and if possible confirmed by telephone. It would also assist us if the Court could notify the Home Office of injunctions which have been refused in the same way.
If judges considering urgent applications, or their clerks, require further information or copies of documentation on individual cases, they may contact the OSCU Duty Officer between the hours specified in the accompanying email to this letter. NCCU will be available after these times.
For any urgent email communication, please follow with a telephone call to the OSCU Duty Officer to confirm receipt.
Yours sincerely
Adam Pompa
For the Home Office