“A woman was allowed into the UK to live with a partner she claimed she had met on the internet despite being unable to prove that she had ever even spoken to him, a report into the UK Border Agency (UKBA) reveals.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The high court has upheld a government rule requiring spouses to prove they can speak English before they can join their partners in Britain. Mr Justice Beatson dismissed a judicial review challenge brought by three couples to the immigration rule introduced last November on the grounds that it was racist and would break up their families.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two thirds of foreign wives could be banned from coming to the UK under plans to stop them being a burden on the state, the Government’s immigration advisers said today.”
The Independent, 16th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who murdered his first wife in a staged car crash and tried to kill his second in a copycat smash was jailed for life today.”
The Independent, 5th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An 84-year-old man from east London who killed his wife so she did not have to go to a care home has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 18th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A frail 84-year-old who killed his ailing wife after becoming terrified that she would be taken into a care home wept as he was spared jail today.”
The Independent, 18th March 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Gill v Woodall and others [2010] EWCA Civ 1430; [2011] WLR (D) 328
“To determine whether a testatrix knew and approved the contents of her will the proper approach was to consider the factual and expert evidence and to ask whether the testatrix appreciated what was in the will when she signed it. It was not necessary to break down the issue into two separate questions of whether a prima facie case had been made out that the testatrix had not known or approved of the contents of her will and then whether the beneficiary had rebutted that case.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The first year of a young couple’s marriage has been made miserable by a ‘rigid and inflexible’ immigration policy, the High Court has heard.”
BBC News, 9th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Spouses who are employed by MPs are preparing to look into legal action if they are barred from their jobs.”
BBC News, 27th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A married Canadian woman is due to fly out of Heathrow later under imminent threat of deportation from the UK.”
BBC News, 9th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who poisoned his estranged wife’s tea with mercury has been given a 350-day suspended sentence.”
BBC News, 28th August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A pensioner who poured mercury into his estranged wife’s cup of tea to win her back by nursing her back to health will be sentenced later today.”
The Independent, 28th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice launches a new advice website for families involved in disputes.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th August 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Director of Public Prosecutions should be required to promulgate a policy identifying the facts and circumstances to be considered in exercising his discretion under s 2(4) of the Suicide Act 1961 whether to prosecute a person such as the claimant’s husband for aiding and abetting an assisted suicide abroad.”
WLR Daily, 31st July 2009
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AM (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2009] EWCA Civ 634; [2009] WLR (D) 22
“The requirement under the Immigration Rules for a disabled British citizen living in the United Kingdom on disability living allowance who was sponsoring her foreign husband to settle in UK to prove that they would be able to maintain themselves without recourse to public funds did not amount to disporportionate discrimination against disabled sponsors under art 14 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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AF (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 240; [2009] WLR (D) 112
“In considering whether it was consistent with the right to respect for family life to require the wife and children of a man whose deportation had been ordered to accompany him in deportation the court should look at the issue from the point of view of the wife and children and not just of the potential deportee. It was not enough that there were no insuperable obstacles to their moving because the ultimate test was one of proportionality.”
WLR Daily, 26th March 2009
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“A wife who knew her husband was storing business merchandise in the matrimonial home, acquiesced in it being there and did not demand its removal, was not in control or possession of the goods.”
The Times, 25th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Police are not investigating the deaths of the husband and wife who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has been jailed for life for murdering her husband after she was faced with losing their £170,000 family home during a marriage break-up.”
BBC News, 4th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A retired civil servant who suffocated his seriously ill wife with a plastic bag as she lay in her hospital bed has been spared jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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