- Comment: Shamima Begum, legal aid and access to justice
- This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
- Tribunal: nullified nullification no barrier to deprivation of British citizenship
- Shamima Begum loses statelessness argument against citizenship deprivation
- National security court slams immigration lawyers
Comment: Shamima Begum, legal aid and access to justice
On 19 July 2020, Boris Johnson announced that the government would review legal aid rules in light of a Court of Appeal judgment requiring the government to repatriate a young woman, Shamima Begum, whom it had deprived of British citizenship on the ba ...
3rd August 2020Naturalisation as a British citizen
Naturalisation is the legal process by which a non-British adult becomes a British citizen. An application has to be made to the Home Office and if the criteria set out in the British Nationality Act 1981 are met then the application will be granted a ...
24th July 2020What does the Life in the UK Handbook say about who the British people are?
This is a guest post by Isaac Abraham, Nath Gbikpi, Tom Hardwick, Barry O’Leary and Mala Savjani. On 22 July 2020, over 180 historians of Britain, the British Empire, and colonialism published an open letter calling for the review of the history cha ...
22nd July 2020This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
In Begum v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) [2020] EWCA Civ 918, the Court of Appeal has ordered that Shamima Begum be granted leave to enter the UK so that she can participate in her deprivation of citizenship appeal. The court also orde ...
16th July 2020Windrush: learning about history, learning from history
Recommendation 6 – The Home Office should: a) devise, implement and review a comprehensive learning and development programme which makes sure all its existing and new staff learn about the history of the UK and its relationship with the rest of the ...
8th July 2020Briefing: Hong Kong and British National (Overseas) status
In this briefing we look at the British National (Overseas) citizenship status held by an estimated 2.9 million people in Hong Kong. Before we begin, a quick reminder that there are six different types of British nationality: British citizenship ...
7th July 2020