Minister showed 'middle-aged' attitude in refusing man's residence application over relationship status, court hears

The Minister for Justice brought a "strikingly middle-income and perhaps even middle-aged dimension" to a decision to refuse a man a residence card on the basis he was not in a "durable relationship", a High Court judge has said.

Mr Justice Max Barrett said there was an absence of clarity governing what is a durable relationship when he quashed the Minister's decision to refuse a residence card for the non-EU national whose girlfriend here is an EU national.