A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain with “access to public funds” after winning a human rights challenge in the British courts. The Mail has the story.
The landmark case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three – who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen – was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.
Her relatives – both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children – won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then attempted to have that decision overturned – but this week lost the case.
The case exposes yet again how human rights laws undermine Britain’s border controls by overturning decisions made by the Home Secretary.
The Conservatives said the “shameful” ruling risked “opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here due to Labour’s pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws”.
The Home Office refused permission for the Palestinians’ application to come to Britain under refugee family reunification rules.
Their original application was lodged in late November 2023, about a month after Israeli forces entered Gaza in the wake of Hamas’ October 7th surprise attacks which killed nearly 1,200 people.
It has now emerged for the first time that the family won a human rights appeal in the lower immigration court in April last year.
That decision led to an appeal by the Home Secretary in the upper immigration tribunal.
But Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran [pictrued] threw out Mahmood’s case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour’s Human Rights Act.
The Palestinians argued they had a “right to family life” under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is “unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right”.
The whole family was granted anonymity by the courts.
The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.
The lower tribunal judge “concluded that the applicants would require access to public funds”, the ruling added.
The UK-based daughter and her three children had suffered “mental health problems” caused by their relatives’ “situation in Gaza”, the judge said.
Referring to the lower court’s decision, Judge Loughran said: “The judge concluded that the applicants’ refusal of entry clearance would give rise to consequences of such gravity for the sponsor and her children as to be unjustifiably harsh such that the public interest was outweighed.
“Accordingly, the judge found that the decisions made in respect of the applicants were disproportionate and unlawful under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and allowed their appeals.”
She added: “I do not find the [Home Secretary’s] grounds to be made out and I conclude that the judge’s decision should stand. I accordingly uphold the judge’s decision.”
It follows a case which emerged last year of another Gazan family winning a similar legal challenge, initially using a scheme designed for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, which PM Sir Keir Starmer said he opposed.
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This new judge was recently appointed by the subversive clique that runs the London legal swamp.She is another KC from lefty Chambers. Unless a government is elected which gets rid of them, the UK is heading for civil war when the first target will be the judges.
Excuse me? Wasn’t Badenoch awfully keen on family members joining their relatives in the UK? She even went so far as to thank the government for allowing them to come here.
The Tories have a nerve, quite frankly.
Stemming from Starmer and Lammy’s mealy-mouthed response to the ghastly Hamas atrocity and it’s inevitable consequences, how did I guess we would soon see Palestinians from Gaza welcomed here? ‘Diversity’ on stilts and all schooled in Jew hatred from an early age, remember.
Ok so where are we going to move to once our country has been ruined by these fçcking people?
And will we have access to “public finds” once we get there?
AIM HIGH VOTE LOWE MILLIONS MUST GO!!!
Every institution this country has is hell bent on the destruction of our society, culture, wealth, safety,livelihoods and peace.
Marxist Communist Globalists have made our lives miserable.
This makes my blood boil, the expectation that they have a right to leach from the pool of monies extracted from downtrodden taxpayers, some of whom are barely surviving themselves.
18 more mouths to feed and harbour and I do wonder if the wailing daughter is working and paying taxes or just extracting ‘public monies’ from the taxpayers. If she wants them here, uncle Tom Cobley and all, she should put them up and pay for them entirely.
How many more such instances have there been, or pending appeal?
Mahmood and the rancid government she is allied with, obviously did not try hard enough to put an end to this ongoing abuse of the British public.
How many Gazan families is Judge Loughran hosting in her home or are they someone else’s problem? Do tell.
I don’t care about their yooman-rites.
Change the law. Millions must leave.
…and her sister-in-law’s parents and siblings and children and spouses, her brother-in-law’s parents and siblings and children and spouses…
Another pace forward towards civil war….
So anyone who gets here on a boat over the channel can now just demand the UK fly over anyone with the remotest blood connection or passing aquaintance?
Well done Uniparty! and some people are trying to big up the Cons again over Reform, do they not see the trough that the government has put out that force feed them nothing but sxxt!?
That face is the smugness of the lanyard class personified.
Perhaps if we stopped paying our taxes the Government might get the message that we have had enough
Sounds about right. They come here, use our laws to punish us, we pay for everything up to and including the kitchen sink. What’s not to like? If you are a blood sucking parasite.
“They have a right to public funds”. There is no such thing as “public funds” it is our taxes!!!!!
They have a right to have “access to public funds”. Bullshit. The term ‘public funds’ is something invented by the state to obfuscate their theft. What this ruling is really saying is that they have a right to a percentage of the income of working people. Why do they? Why does anyone have a right to take part of my income and not provide any service or goods in return?
Would it not be easier for the mother and three children go back to Gaza then she could be with her extended family.
THEY’RE TAKING THE F××KING P1SS NOW
This needs to stop, the UK is not an all you can eat buffet.
This could be solved with a simple act of parliament stating that unwanted migrants who gain the right to remain through a court decision have to be put up and maintained at the expense of the judge who ruled for them to stay.
I think we might start seeing different results then.
I strive each day to find joy and show appreciation for all I have and am. Not an easy feat given the nonsense we’re bombarded with daily, and the utter stupidity displayed by this judge. Seeing my country being used and abused is detrimental to my mental health. Where’s this judge’s concern for me and my family? Sick of this garbage.
These Palestinians may have a “right to family life”, but does it necessarily have to be here in the UK?
We’re the only country deranged enough to let them in, the Arabs want nothing to do with them so there’s essentially nowhere for them to go.
They could have made a go of Gaza, but the death cult of Hamas was allowed to run riot and reduce their place to ashes.