Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts United Kingdom Supreme Court

Date: 10/19/2016

Subject: The decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court criticizes, in a case following an order of expulsion, the national law which, before the amendment of 2006, doesn’t automatically grant all children born abroad the English citizenship, in violation, according to the court, of articles 8 and 14 of the ECHR

Parties: R (on the application of Johnson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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