UK Decision Concluding that Dutch MP Geert Wilders (a Harsh Critic of Islam) was Wrongly Excluded from the UK

by Eugene Volokh
The Volokh Conspiracy
December 16, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/576/uk-decision-concluding-that-dutch-mp-geert

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The decision was made two months ago, but I think the written opinion has just become available, as GW v. An Immigration Officer. Note that the decision rests in considerable measure on internal European Union regulations having to do with freedom of movement among European states:

As a result of the 2006 Regulations, introduced by the present government, a Dutchman has almost the same right to visit London as a Yorkshireman has; and as a result of the Human Rights Act 1998, a Dutchman has the same right of freedom of expression as a Yorkshireman has.

The tribunal's interesting discussion of freedom of expression, and of the insufficiency of the government's threat-of-disturbance rationales, has to be understood against that backdrop.

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