It was wrong for the European Court of Human Rights to intervene with the plan to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, Dominic Raab has said.
The deputy prime minister said the flight's grounding strengthened the case for reforming human rights laws.
The first flight of the Rwanda asylum plan, scheduled for Tuesday evening, was halted after the court intervened.
Plans for future flights have begun and the government remains committed to the plan, Priti Patel told MPs.
"We will not be deterred from doing the right thing," the home secretary said on Wednesday.
The Rwanda asylum plan, announced by the government in April, intends to take some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead. The government has said the scheme would discourage others from crossing the Channel.
Up to seven people had been expected to be removed to Rwanda on the Boeing 767 on Tuesday evening - which was halted minutes before take-off.
But despite clearing UK courts, the flight was halted by a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which led to fresh challenges in the UK courts.
Refugee organisations, politicians and the Church of England are among those who have criticised the asylum plan.
Charities and lawyers representing asylum seekers have also launched a series of legal challenges against the policy.
Justice Secretary Mr Raab said it had been "quite wrong" for the Strasburg court to use a special power to block the removal of some of the asylum seekers.
It had turned to a little-used court rule, that is technically not part of the core law of the European Convention on Human Rights - the treaty the UK is part of.
He said that the court's ability to use this injunction power would end under his planned reforms.
The UK's High Court was "very clear" and said there was "no realistic risk that in the interim period there would have been any harm to those who would have been deported", the deputy prime minister said.
The High Court ruling also accepted there was a "material public interest" in the home secretary being able to carry out her policies.
Asked if the UK could simply ignore the European court's ruling, Mr Raab said: "Not under the Human Rights Act, but we will address this squarely with the bill of rights."
The bill of rights is a plan by the government that would see changes made to the Human Rights Act. Under the plan, the UK would stay party to the European Convention on Human Rights but would change how it is interpreted by courts.
Mr Raab said the grounding of the flight "does strengthen" the case for reform.
"We're going to stay in the convention but make sure the procedural framework is reformed", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The changes would "stop and change the ability of the Strasbourg court to issue what amounts to effective injunctions when they have no power grounded in the European convention to do so", he said.
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