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Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn

Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn



Lawyers criticise what they consider inconsistencies in the handling of individual foreign nationals’ casesThe UK government scheme allowing EU citizens to remain post-Brexit is in danger of being upended, legal experts have warned, after a series of conflicting court rulings over social welfare payments to French and Slovenian citizens and the relative of a Spanish woman living in Britain.In May, one county court judge found against Islington council which had rescinded a Slovenian software engineers’s right to emergency housing after he lost work during the pandemic. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/25/uk-post-brexit-scheme-eu-citizens-courts

Author : Lisa O’Carroll Brexit correspondent

Publish date : 2024-07-25 14:54:07

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