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Loving the Alien: the British Protected Person (BPP) prior to the British Nationality Act 1948 – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. December 14, 2016. January 11, 2017. Loving the Alien: the British Protected Person (BPP) prior to the British Nationality Act 1948. Other examples include Bechuanaland (now Botswana), Sierra Leone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and the Solomon Islands. Such territories were considered to lack an internal structure and came to be known as protectorates. There were persons granted local naturalisation as British subjects within a particular Dominion or colony, or in Brit...

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Free Movement as a Human Right – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. August 30, 2016. December 27, 2016. Free Movement as a Human Right. Regarding free movement between states, Article 12(2) provides that ‘Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own’. However, on the other side of the medal struck for such virtuosity, there is no reciprocal right for. Article 12(4),without qualification, provides that no-one shall be. Deprived of the right to enter. Despite its scope, Article 12 does not confer a right on an aliento ente...

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Irish British Subjects – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. March 8, 2016. December 27, 2016. While perhaps well known to that small band of nationality lawyers around the world who take pleasure in obscure, forgotten and anachronistic classes of citizenship and nationality, it is not more widely appreciated that there remains a limited class of Irish citizens who are, by virtue of holding Irish citizenship, also considered to be British subjects. Further, the UK position was that, outside the territory of the Irish Free State, th...

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Child Statelessness in Europe – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. January 3, 2016. December 27, 2016. Child Statelessness in Europe. The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘the 1989 Convention’) requires States Parties to ensure the right of every child to acquire a nationality. Notwithstanding this obligation, incidences of child statelessness remain in Europe and in that regard European states have failed to live up to their international commitments. It is not hard to make provision to eliminate existing incidences of sta...

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Unfinished Sympathy: Remaining prejudice in British Nationality Law against persons deemed ‘Illegitimate’ – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. January 11, 2017. January 11, 2017. Unfinished Sympathy: Remaining prejudice in British Nationality Law against persons deemed ‘Illegitimate’. Where provision has been made to overcome the prejudice and discrimination in the law against persons born out of wedlock, it is to the benefit of persons who would be British. The first step to eliminating prejudice. Child born to him, see section 50(9) of the British Nationality Act 1981 (‘the 1981 Act’) as enacted. The effec...

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Dual/Multiple Citizenship – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. Posts on dual/multiple citizenship may be found here. Dual citizenship or nationality and multiple citizenship or nationality (dual/multiple citizenship) is a way of describing the situation where a person holds the citizenship or nationality of more than one state under the law of those states. In other words more than state claims a person as belonging to it under its law. Where a person holds the citizenship of more than state, each state of citizenship may decline to ...

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About – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. I am a barrister, professional author and consultant. I practise in London but travel widely in Europe and elsewhere to see clients. I take an overarching approach to ensuring that all aspects of migration, residence and citizenship applications, as well as legal remedies, are considered and provide strategic advice to secure the optimum outcome for clients and their families. Further information about my practice can be found on my Garden Court Chambers webpage. I am abl...

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Nationality and Citizenship Law – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. Nationality and Citizenship Law. This website and its posts contain articles and information about nationality and citizenship. There is a focus on British nationality law and British citizenship. However there is also separate consideration of EU citizenship, Statelessness, dual/multiple nationality, acquisition of nationality, and loss of nationality. The topics are of of UK, European and global interest.The full list of topics is as follows:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Deprivation of Nationality and Citizenship – The Role of EU Law – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. December 6, 2016. December 27, 2016. Deprivation of Nationality and Citizenship The Role of EU Law. Published in the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. The conclusion is that, as regards the acts of a member state to deprive one of its own nationals of its nationality, EU law does not offer added protection against statelessness, per se, and offers only limited assistance against the loss of EU citizenship. Nationality in International Law. Loving the Ali...

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Adrian Berry – Nationality and Citizenship Law

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Nationality and Citizenship Law. Specialist Immigration Lawyer for Global Migration, Citizenship and Settlement, UK Immigration Law, British Nationality Law, EU Free Movement of Persons, Human Rights, Statelessness and Asylum. January 11, 2017. January 11, 2017. Unfinished Sympathy: Remaining prejudice in British Nationality Law against persons deemed ‘Illegitimate’. December 28, 2016. January 11, 2017. Now, gods, stand up for bastards! 8211; Illegitimacy in British Nationality Law. December 14, 2016.