Forster v Hoofddirectie van de Informatie Beheer Groep: ECJ 18 Nov 2008

Grand Chamber – Freedom of movement for persons – Student who is a national of one Member State and goes to another Member State to follow a training course – Student maintenance grant Citizenship of the Union Article 12 EC Legal certainty
The imposition under Dutch law of a requirement of five years’ prior residence in the Netherlands was held to be justified because the qualification was attainable by someone who had come to the Netherlands to study.

Judges:

V Skouris, P

Citations:

[2009] All ER (EC) 399, [2008] ECR I-8507, [2009] 1 CMLR 32, [2009] PTSR CS23, ECLI:EU:C:2008:630, [2008] EUECJ C-158/07

Jurisdiction:

European

Cited by:

CitedTigere, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills SC 29-Jul-2015
After increasing university fees, the student loan system was part funded by the government. They introduced limits to the availability of such loans, and a student must have been lawfully ordinarily resident in the UK for three years before the day . .
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Updated: 26 July 2022; Ref: scu.640865