Lawyers criticise what they consider inconsistencies in the handling of individual foreign nationals’ cases
The UK government scheme allowing EU citizens to remain post-Brexit is in danger of being upended, legal experts have warned, after a series of conflicting court rulings over social welfare payments to French and Slovenian citizens and the relative of a Spanish woman living in Britain.
In May, one county court judge found against Islington council which had rescinded a Slovenian software engineers’s right to emergency housing after he lost work during the pandemic.