As we reveal this week (see p1), the Court of Appeal has made a landmark ruling that such a decision should rest ultimately with the court and not the local authority accommodating the young person. The London authority at the centre of the precedent-setting case determined that K, who had arrived from Uganda, was not the person claimed nor the asserted age of 14, but that she was over 18. If an asylum-seeker is under 18, it of course imposes a heavier burden...