As has been widely reported, the European Council agreed the UK government’s request for an extension of the date set for it to leave the European Union. No-one expected the Article 50 extension to come without conditions, but few were able to accurately predict the nature of the condition that would be imposed, which is the approval by the House of Commons of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (EC Decision, 22.3.2019: para. 9). In the days leading up to the extension request,

The proposition that racism is injurious to both victims and perpetrators rests at the heart of the recent decision of the UK High Court in the case of R (On the Application of Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 452 (Admin) - the so-called “right to rent” case. Concluding that sections 20-37 of the Immigration Act 2014 were so clearly incompatible with Articles 14 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rig