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27 November 2015
Issue: 7678 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Immigration

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R (on the application of Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (on the application of Bibi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Liberty Intervening) [2015] UKSC 68, [2015] All ER (D) 150 (Nov)

The Supreme Court held, among other things, that the rule requiring a foreign spouse or partner of a British citizen or a person settled in the UK to pass a test of competence in the English language before coming to live in the UK was not an unjustified interference with rights under Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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