A High Court judge has upheld the Minister for Justice's refusal to allow a married Pakistani couple live here on grounds their application involved an abuse of the wife's free movement rights as an EU citizen. He was giving his reserved judgment on judicial review proceedings by the couple challenging the Minister's refusal. He concluded she was not seeking to exercise her free movement rights in a "genuine" manner in accordance with the Directive. The couple appealed on grounds including the Minister had not properly construed the regulations governing free movement and the Citizens Rights Directive. Given the abuse of rights, there was no basis on which the court could quash the Minister's decision, he ruled.

Source: Irish Examiner April 03, 2019 15:45 UTC