Should The Fact That This Drug-Dealing Killer's Parents Were Not Married, Be A Good Enough Reason For Him Not To Be Deported?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3851422/Jamaican-killer-thrown-country-say-Supreme-Court-judges-violate-human-rights.html

/// Upholding Johnson's appeal, Lady Hale ruled deporting him simply because of the accident of his birth outside wedlock would be unlawfully discriminatory. ///

/// Johnson was in no way responsible for his parents' unmarried status and there could be 'no justification' for deporting him. ///

[Old_Geezer]

If his parents were married, what on Earth has that got to do with it ?

I keep pointing out that this claim is irrelevant by comparing it to a similar situation where the flaw is more obvious; but this seems not to be considered by you.

But I think my point has been made. The 'if married' thing is as irrelevant as the 'if both Nigerian' thing. It's the law he would not have been deported in both cases had things been different, and the law that he should be if the scenarios are as described. Both 'what if' situations are irrelevant to the actual case but the judges failed to take that into consideration.

[Peter Pedant]

erm you havent kept up with the ins and outs of nationality law eddie

in the good old days - the jus solis said exactly that
you got the nationality from where you were born
I am british even tho my father was born in Cape town and my mother calcutta
and the jus sanguinis was secondary

that is why a little girl you may know who was born to a teacher in Zambia would have been Zambian if the birth were not registered ....

he (J) would have been British under the 1981 act if it had not been repealed by the 2002 act. see the judgement.....

[Peter Pedant]

// If his parents were married, what on Earth has that got to do with it ?//

central to the case - he would have been british

the case is about bringing rights of children born in and out of wedlock into line. see the judgement

[TWR]

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[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51

What if his 'British' father had sown his seeds with a number of different Jamaican ladies, would those off-springs also enjoy the rights of British citizenship?

[EDDIE51]

^ AOG according to the law as interpreted here then Yes. A British father married or not married to your mother is sufficient for you to be granted British citizenship. This is NOT !! my interpretation it is what the supreme court have ruled to be the case!