High Court Rules Right To Rent Breaches Human Rights

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right To Rent scheme breaches human rights law in a damning verdict on government immigration policy. Mr Justice Martin Spencer ruled that the scheme breached the European Convention on Human Rights on the basis that it led to discrimination against non-UK nationals with the right to rent and British ethnic minorities. Referring extensively to argument and evidence provided by the RLA, Justice Spencer concluded that discrimination by landlords was taking place “because of the Scheme”. He went on to conclude that “the government’s own evaluation failed to consider discrimination on grounds of nationality at all – only on grounds of ethnicity”. Read more on 24housing.

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