Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Subject Matter

NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Secretary of State considering whether to deprive person of British citizenship on national security grounds — Whether Secretary of State obliged to have regard to possibility of authorities breaching obligations to person as potential victim of trafficking — Whether Secretary of State obliged to afford person opportunity to make representations — Whether Secretary of State under public sector equality duty — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40 — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), s 2B — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 4 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 192

[2024] EWCA Civ 152; [2024] 1 WLR 4269; [2025] 1 All ER 811; [2024] WLR(D) 86; The Times, 4 March 2024, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

Free Movement
Security tribunal finds Shamima Begum was trafficked but she loses anyway Case comment

Court of Appeal rejects Shamima Begum’s appeal against the deprivation of her British citizenship Case comment