The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 2 WLR 556
Supreme Court
Regina (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism and others intervening)
Regina (Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Same intervening)
Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Same intervening)
[2021] UKSC 7
2020 Nov 23, 24; 2021 Feb 26
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales JJSC, Lady Black
Nationality— British citizenship— Deprivation— Secretary of State depriving claimant of British citizenship on national security grounds— Claimant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission despite being outside UK when deprivation order made— Secretary of State refusing claimant’s application for leave to enter to pursue appeal— Whether appeal against deprivation order to be allowed if impossible for claimant to have fair and effective out-of-country appeal— Whether principles of fairness and justice requiring claimant to enter UK to pursue appeal— Whether Commission erring in applying judicial review principles on appeal—
British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), ss 40, 40A
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Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), ss 2, 2B