Moustaquim Case

Abstract

Aliens — Deportation — Deportation for criminal offences of alien long resident in State — Limits on right of States to deport aliens — Human rights — Right to respect for family life

Damages — Human rights violations — Losses liable to compensation — Non-pecuniary losses — Expenses — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 50

Human rights — Right to respect for family life — Alien entering country with family at very early age — Close relatives and siblings all living in country — Twenty years after arrival alien deported on basis of record of criminal activity and thereby separated from family — Whether deportation interference with family life — Whether deportation “necessary in a democratic society” — Whether different treatment accorded alien than national — Discrimination on grounds of nationality — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 8 and 14