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Article 8 ECHR, family reunification, and the UK's Supreme Court : family matters? / Helena Wray.
Series: Human rights law in perspective: volume 29.Publisher: Oxford : Hart, 2023Description: xxiv, 247 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509902576; 9781509966073.Subject(s): Family reunification -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain | Emigration and immigration law -- Great Britain
| Freedom of movement -- Great Britain | Great Britain. Supreme Court | Courts of last resort -- Great Britain | Constitutional law -- Great Britain | Human rights -- Great Britain | European Court of Human RightsDDC classification: 342.82041 Summary: This volume focuses on a series of judgments by the UK's Supreme Court on the application of the right to respect for family life, contained in Article 8 ECHR, to immigration decisions. These judgments have required the government to amend several aspects of its family migration policy and have become the centre of legal and political controversy, raising questions about the judicial function in a modern democracy, the influence on the legal system of European human rights law and the difficulties of controlling immigration in a globalised world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume focuses on a series of judgments by the UK's Supreme Court on the application of the right to respect for family life, contained in Article 8 ECHR, to immigration decisions. These judgments have required the government to amend several aspects of its family migration policy and have become the centre of legal and political controversy, raising questions about the judicial function in a modern democracy, the influence on the legal system of European human rights law and the difficulties of controlling immigration in a globalised world.
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