During the CGLPL’s inspection, a cloud of uncertainty hung over the centre’s future, which was undermining both the staff’s working conditions and the migrant’s detention conditions. This uncertainty has since lifted: renovations have been carried out in the centre and new staff have been recruited. The centre’s temporary closure during the works provided an opportunity to put some of the CGLPL’s recommendations into practice: staff training, completely rewriting and translating the rules of procedure and making the necessary developments whilst keeping visits confidential. The CGLPL had also recommended taking systematic action following incidents and keeping CCTV images. According to the Minister of the Interior, the first of these recommendations has been acted upon, while the second seems to be based upon an incorrect finding. Finally, the CGLPL had recommended two measures aimed at guaranteeing rights of defence. First of all this entailed notifying imprisoned people of obligations to leave French territory (OQTFs) within a timeframe that enabled them to properly exercise their rights of appeal. Because this notification is made in prison, with no interpreters or a legal aid association present, by the time the detained migrant gets to the detention centre for illegal immigrants and is finally in a position to be able to appeal, the time-limit for doing so has passed. With no response forthcoming on this point from the Minister of the Interior, this recommendation is upheld. Orders to leave French territory issued to prisoners must be notified under conditions that enable them to properly exercise their rights of appeal, i.e. when they can immediately benefit from the services of an interpreter and a legal aid association. Second, it bore on displaying the list of lawyers and creating a cubicle where confidential interviews could be held between detained migrants and their lawyer at the Versailles court of first instance in civil and criminal matters (TGI). It is a shame that the Minister of the Interior has not specified what action has been taken following these proposals, which are therefore upheld. Even if one of these measures comes under the purview of the Minister of Justice, the Minister of the Interior needs to instigate it as he has overall responsibility for the Government’s immigration policy, which includes detained persons’ rights of defence. The list of lawyers of the territorially competent bar must systematically be displayed in the living spaces of detention centres for illegal immigrants. In courts of first instance in civil and criminal matters, before the hearing with the liberty and custody judge, spaces must be provided to enable a confidential interview between the detained migrant and his/her lawyer. 66