Ronnie Clancy KC takes in-depth look at Begum case
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Ronnie Clancy KC
The case of Shamima Begum returns to the courts this week in a renewed appeal against the home secretary’s decision in 2019 to deprive her of her UK citizenship on national security grounds.
A new piece by Ronnie Clancy KC takes an in-depth look at saga so far, in three sections.
Section 1 sets out the home secretary’s reasons for the decision and examines the evidence on which it was based.
Section 2 explains the limited grounds on which the decision can be challenged according to rules which were clarified by the Supreme Court when the case called there last year on some preliminary issues. It also contains a discussion of how these rules might affect the new appeal.
Section 3 is a description of the constitutional principles which, according to the Supreme Court, require the court to afford the home secretary a very wide margin in decisions of this kind.
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