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So it’s goodbye from him – and it’s goodbye from him…
Brexit
Last week, Boris Johnson resigned as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and David Davis as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Johnson was replaced by Jeremy Hunt, who campaigned for Remain in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum but who, according to the BBC , has since said that he is a convert to Brexit. In Davis’s place, the Prime Minister appointed Dominic Raab – a longstanding supporter of UK withdrawal from the ECHR , never mind from the EU. But, on the other hand …
… latest Brexit plans include adherence to ECHR
The Government’s strategy for Brexit published last week, The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union , declares, inter alia , that the new relationship should be underpinned by appropriate safeguards: respect for human rights, comprehensive data protection arrangements and robust, appropriate governance arrangements – and states that “The UK is committed to membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)”.
Residence, cohabitation and third-country nationals
Ms Banger is a national of South Africa. Her partner, Mr Philip Rado, is a United Kingdom national. Between 2008 and 2010, they lived together in South Africa, then in May 2010, moved to the Netherlands when Mr Rado got a job there and they lived in the Netherlands until 2013. Ms Banger obtained a residence card in her capacity as an “extended family member” of an EU citizen. In 2013, they decided to move to the UK; but Ms Banger’s application for a residence card was refused because they were not married and Regulation 9 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 provided that only the spouse or civil partner of a UK national could be considered a family member of that national. The matter came before the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), which decided to stay the proceedings and to seek a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice.
In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Banger [2018] EUECJ C-89/17 , the CJEU held that […]