Asylum seekers will be allowed to stay at the Bell Hotel in Epping after the Court of Appeal lifted a temporary injunction preventing them being housed there. The High Court ruled last week that 138 men living at the Essex hotel must leave by 12 September. But they will now be allowed to stay after the government won an appeal against the ruling.

The system of migrants being housed in hotels can continue nationwide

Lord Justice Bean said that the High Court judge who issued last week’s injunction made a number of errors that ‘undermine(d) his decision’. The earlier High Court judge, he said, failed to take into account Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s right to take part in the decision about whether the hotel should remain open. Lord Justice Bean warned that ‘the closure of one site’ could

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