EM (Lebanon) v Secretary of State for The Home Department [2008] UKHL 64 (22 October 2008)

The House of Lords recently ruled that a foreign national could not be removed from the UK in circumstances that would completely deny or nullify her right to family life, since such removal would be incompatible with the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, given domestic effect by the Human Rights Act 1998.

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