U3 v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Subject Matter

NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Appeal to Special Immigration Appeals Commission against deprivation of British citizenship on national security grounds — Whether appeal to be treated as application for judicial review — Whether Commission having power to make findings of fact on appeal — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40 — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), s 2B

[2023] EWCA Civ 811; [2024] KB 433; [2024] 2 WLR 319; [2024] 3 All ER 17; [2023] WLR(D) 311, CA

NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Secretary of State depriving appellant of citizenship and refusing appellant’s application for entry clearance on national security grounds — Appellant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission on basis Secretary of State’s national security assessment wrong — Proper approach of Commission to Secretary of State’s national security assessment — Immigration Act 1971 (c 77), s 3 — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40(2) — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), ss 2, 2B — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

[2025] UKSC 19; [2025] AC 1510; [2025] 2 WLR 1041; [2025] 4 All ER 349; [2025] WLR(D) 260, SC(E)

NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Secretary of State depriving appellant of citizenship and refusing appellant’s application for entry clearance on national security grounds — Appellant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission on basis Secretary of State’s national security assessment wrong — Proper approach of Commission to Secretary of State’s national security assessment — Immigration Act 1971 (c 77), s 3 — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40(2) — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), ss 2, 2B

[2025] UKSC 19; [2025] AC 1510; [2025] 2 WLR 1041; [2025] 4 All ER 349; [2025] WLR(D) 260, SC(E)

Appellate History

Commentary

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