Xhelilaj, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Eric Fripp (instructed by Rashid & Rashid) for the Claimant Zane Malik (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Defendant Hearing date: 16th February 2021 ____________________

i) The Claimant became a British citizen by naturalisation on 1st September 2010;

ii) Notwithstanding any subsisting question regarding the Claimant's place of birth and/or nationality by birth, the Defendant confirmed on or by11 th March 2019 both that the Claimant was then a British citizen and that the Defendant had decided not seek to remove the Claimant's citizenship by use of her power and the section 40(3) of the 1981 Act;

iii) That confirmation by the Defendant was central to the previous judicial review application in relation to which permission was granted on 18 th February 2020;

iv) The previous proceeding was resolved by consent on or about 25 th March 2020 as a consequence of the letter of 11 th March 2020, the Order recording the agreement coming into being "UPON the Defendant issuing a decision on 11 March 2020, not to deprive the Claimant of British citizenship."