Supreme CourtPublished: January 7, 2019Rhuppiah v secretary of state for the Home DepartmentLord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes, Lady Black and Lord Lloyd-Jones[2018] UKSC 58Judgment: November 14, 2018All non-British citizens who were lawfully present in the United Kingdom but without indefinite leave to remain had a precarious immigration status and, therefore, when considering whether further leave to remain should be granted, or other such immigration issue, little weight should be given to any private life they had established within the UK. The Supreme Court so held in allowing the appeal, on the facts of the case, of the applicant, Mercy Charles Rhuppiah, a Tanzanian national, against the dismissal by the Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Moore-Bick, Lord Justice Sales and Sir Stephen Richards) ([2016]…

Source: The Times January 06, 2019 23:59 UTC