Beoku-Betts v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted June 27th, 2008 in human rights, immigration, law reports by sally

Beoku-Betts v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 39; [2008] WLR (D) 209

“S 65 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 required an adjudicator, in determining an alleged breach of a claimant’s right to respect for his family life under art 8 of the European Convention, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998, to take account of the family unit as a whole, and if, overall, removal would be a disproportionate interference, all affected family members were to be included as victims.”

WLR Daily, 26th June 2008

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