Appeal against deprivation of citizenship allowed
C3, C4,C C7 v Secretary of State for the Home Department SC/167/2020
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has today given judgment in C3, C4 and C7 v SSHD, an appeal against the Secretary of State’s decision to deprive C3, C4 and C7 of their British citizenship. Allowing their appeal, SIAC found that the decision to deprive C3, C4 and C7 of their citizenship breached s.40(4) of […]
SIAC quashes expulsion decisions due to failure to give applicants an opportunity to respond to reasons that had been given previously in open
Farooq & Anor v SSHD SN/7/2014
This was an application for a review of the decisions by the SSHD to exclude the applicants from the UK. In 2009 they were suspected of having committed offences under the Terrorism Act 2006 and the SSHD served them with a deportation notice in Apr 2009. The applicants returned to Pakistan voluntarily on Sept 2009 […]
SIAC rules in favour of the SSHD in Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, s 2D application
MWH v SSHD SN/57/2015
This case considered an application under Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, s 2D. It follows from a refusal by the SSHD to accept MWH’s naturalisation application on the ground that he was not of “good character” and that “it would be contrary to the public interest to give reasons” in his case. The Commission […]
SIAC rules SSHD’s decision to strip British/Sudanese dual national of British citizenship as lawful and not an abuse of power
L1 v Secretary Of State For The Home Department [2014] UKSIAC SC_100_2010
The appellant was a dual British and Sudanese national, and has spent much of the last 7 years in Sudan. At a time when the SSHD knew the appellant to be in the Sudan she took the decision to deprive him of his British citizenship. She took the decision when the appellant was outside the […]
Closed material in the course of the SIAC appeal
L1 v SSHD (2013), SIAC
SIAC will receive closed material in the course of the SIAC appeal because it clearly was the meaning of the Court of Appeal, and the court saw clear advantages to both sides in the capacity of the Commission, to examine the closed material.