Lim (EEA -Dependency) Malaysia: UTIAC 7 Aug 2013

UTIAC Subject to there being no abuse of rights, the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice allows for dependency of choice. Whilst the jurisprudence has not to date dealt with dependency of choice in the form of choosing not to live off savings, it has expressly approved dependency of choice in the form of choosing not take up employment (see Centre Publique d’Aide Social de Courcelles v Lebon [1987] ECR 2811 (‘Lebon’) at [22]) and it may be very difficult to discern any principled basis for differentiating between the two different forms of dependency of choice when the test is a question of fact and the reasons why there is dependency are irrelevant.

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