The Street Report on Anti‐Discrimination Legislation1 Report of the Committee on Immigration Appeals2
| Date | 01 May 1968 |
| Published date | 01 May 1968 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1968.tb01190.x |
REl’OllTS
OF
COMMITTEES
‘hE
STREET REPORT
ON
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION
’
REPORT
OF
THE
COMMITTEE
ON
IMMIGRATION
APPEALS
A
STRIKING
feature of the development of the law in England, Wales
and Scotland in relation to ethnic minorities is the interaction
between immigration control and legislation designed to promote
racial integration.
For
this reason it seems no coincidence that the
Report of the Committee on Immigration Appeals and the Street
Report on Ah-Discrimination Legislation were published within
three months of each other in 1067. When these clear, forthright
and scholarly documents are read together it becomes obvious that
the cause of the alien has become inextricably bound up with
that of the Commonwealth citizen and that both are causally
related to the movement to extend the Race Relations Act 1965
to deal with racial discrimination in employment, accommodation,
the provision of services and those places of public resort not
covered by the existing law.
The critics
of
the Government’s illiberal White Paper on
Zmniigration.
from
the Comnton~ealth,~
published in August 1965,
argued that the Government was taking a firm line to stop colocired
immigration but was doing virtually nothing to make immigration
procedures fairer
or
to create equal opportunities for those already
here.6
To
this the Government responded with the announcement,
in November
1965,‘
that a committee was to be appointed under
the chairmanship of Sir Roy Wilson,
Q.C.
(President of the Indus-
trial Court),
‘‘
to
consider whether any, snd, if
so,
what, rights
of appeal
or
other remedies should be available to aliens and Com-
monwealth citizens who are refused admission to,
or
are required
to
leave, the country.”
*
The Committee took well over a ;year
1
Political
and
Economic
Planning,
November
1967.
2
Cmnd.
3387.
August
1967.
8s.
3
This refer8 to all those British subjects and protected peraons who
do
not have
an automatic right
of
entry into the
U.K.
in terms
of
the Commonwealth
Immigrants Act
1962,
86.
1
and
2.
and the Commonwealth Immigrantri Act
19G8, B.
1.
This note went
to
prem before the pafising
of
the latter meitsure,
and prior
to
the publication
of
the Race Relations
Bill
1968.
J
For
comment see Hepple
(1966)
29
M.L.R.
306.
5
Cmnd.
2739.
6
e.g..
Memorandum
of
Evidence submitted by the National Committee
for
Commonwealth Immigrant8 to the Committee
on
Immigration Appeals,‘
dated May
26, 1966,
para.
3.
7
The Committee’s warrant
of
appointment
WBS
issued only
on
February
23,
1966.
8
The inclusion
of
aliens in the terms
of
reference
W~R
tho culmination
of
an
aoitation which
IIM
a
Ion and distinguifihed histor
:
e.g.,
Laski. Dis-
chionary Power
(1935)
%olitiea
278:.
Reform
01
tie
Law
(ed. Olamville
Williams)
(1951).
p.
55;
Thornberry, Dr. Soblen and the
Alien
Lirw
of
310
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