Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration Tribunal

Date: 08/19/2009

Subject: The tribunal poses questions on the scope of the notion of private life as guaranteed by art. 8 ECHR in a case concerning a citizen of Zimbabwe living since several years in England for study and work reasons. The decision reiterates a complex evaluation of the concrete case, affirming that in itself art. 8 does not include a right to work or a right to study.

Parties: MK c/ Secretary of State for Home Department

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 14 Right to an education - Art. 19 Expulsion

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