A judge who granted a Palestinian family the right to live in the UK after they applied through a scheme originally meant for Ukrainian refugees made the wrong decision, Keir Starmer has said.
A family of six seeking to flee Gaza were allowed to join their brother in the UK after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights, it emerged on Tuesday.
Hugo Norton-Taylor, an upper tribunal judge, allowed the family to come to the UK on the basis of their right to a family life under article 8 of the European convention on human rights (ECHR).
As first reported in the Daily Telegraph, the Palestinian family – a mother, father and four children aged seven to 18 – had seen their home destroyed by an airstrike and were living in a Gaza refugee camp with daily threats to their lives from Israeli military attacks.
Family fleeing Gaza were allowed to join brother in UK after applying through scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees.
