Asylum seekers appealed to the british courts, and were successful in some of those challenges. But there still remained a few people sitting on the tarmac in wiltshire last night. One of them appealed to the european court of human rights in strasburg. And that court ruled not that the policy is illegal, but that the legal ity of the policy needs to be established. The government has repeated what it has said all along, which is that the current asylum system is unfair and dangerous. It's trying to deter people from trying to claim asylum in britain at all.