Supreme Court rules man's arrest for deportation was unlawful

A young Pakistani man was unlawfully arrested for deportation because it happened a day before before a final decision refusing him residency on the basis of his father's "marriage" to a Romanian woman, an EU citizen, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Under regulations of 2015 giving effect to the EU Free Movement of Persons Directive, the man was entitled to temporary residency pending final determination of his application for residence but the problem was he was arrested a day before that, the court held.