Where the Sham(ble) Lies

Sham marriages in the UK have increased by more than 50% in the last year, according to today's Daily Telegraph (page 2) and last night's BBC TV 1 and 4 News.
Foreign and Commonwealth men are paying upwards of £15,000 to marry East European women to enable them to continue to live in the UK.
Attempts to prevent them are frustrated by the Courts which cite human rights.
This would not be the case if the European Commission of Human Rights had supported my complaint about this issue in 1977.
Or if the ECHR had determined (12 May 1982) that the case of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK was admissible.
It did so despite the fact that the European Convention on Human Rights makes no mention of enabling people from outside the Council of Europe region to live in member states.
It is not the marriages that are sham: they would be sham if the person conducting the ceremony did not have the authority to do so.
The shameful sham is the one perpetrated by the ECHR and then (three years later) by the European Court of Human Rights for their decisions when there was no substantive legal basis to do so.