Hugh Jackson

UK rules leaves foreign spouse visa holders vulnerable

2011-01-27T00:00:00

In R v Inhabitants of Eastbourne (1803) 4 East 103, Lord Ellenborough declared, absent of statutory support for poor foreigners, the ‘law of humanity, which is anterior to all positive laws, obliges us to afford them relief, to save them from starving’. For one group, however, the law falls short ...