Court rejects man's right of residence challenge over failure to establish dependency on sister-in-law

The High Court has rejected a Pakistani man's challenge to a refusal to grant him a right of residence here on the basis that he was dependant on his sister-in-law, who is an EU citizen living here.

Asad Ali Cheema (aged 28) claimed that a month after he came on a visit to his brother in Ireland that his family rice trading business in Pakistan, which his sister-in-law had helped fund, was burnt down by criminals.