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Amendment 47 seeks to replace the crucial judicial function with a Home Office review board to review decisions made on an error of law. Replacing an independent judiciary with a review body within the very department that made the decision risks sacrificing impartiality for internal bureaucracy. This approach would remove the right to access justice and undermine legal certainty. Previous fast-track appeal schemes, though less draconian than this proposal, have been impugned by domestic courts for want of fairness, leading to a great expenditure of resources, and have proved unworkable in practice.