The Weekly Law Reports
[2013] 3 WLR 1006
Supreme Court
Al-Jedda v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Open Society Justice Initiative intervening)
[2013] UKSC 62
2013 June 27;
Oct 9
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond DPSC, Lord Mance, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath JJSC
Nationality— British citizenship— Deprivation of citizenship— Home Secretary depriving claimant of British citizenship on ground that it was conducive to public good— Claimant’s Iraqi citizenship lost on acquisition of British nationality but arguably capable of restoration on application— Claimant making no such application— Whether effect of order rendering claimant stateless— Whether order void—
British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40(4) (as substituted by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), s 4(1))