Right to rent checks have “little to no effect” on controlling immigration, says judge in High Court case.
The Home Office has said it will reassess its right to rent scheme that requires landlords in England to check the immigration status of their tenants after the High Court ruled the legislation breached human rights law.
In a statement to the House of Commons yesterday, immigration minister Caroline Nokes said her department disagreed with the High Court judgement handed down on 1 March, which found the mandatory immigration checks “discriminatory”.
Delivering the verdict last week, Mr Justice Spencer said that the regulation “does not merely provide the occasion or opportunity for private landlords to discriminate but causes them to do so”.