The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 1 WLR 4797
Court of Appeal
*Regina (Howard) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2022] EWCA Civ 1068
2022 May 5; July 27
Underhill, Baker, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Nationality— British citizenship— Acquisition— Claimant living in United Kingdom for many years after arriving from Jamaica as part of “Windrush generation”— Secretary of State refusing claimant’s application for naturalisation as British citizen on basis of criminal record— Whether Secretary of State’s decision to apply guidance on good character requirement to Windrush generation without modification irrational—
British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 6, Sch 1, para 1(1)(b)