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Law digests: 1 April 2022

01 April 2022
Issue: 7973 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Citizenship

R (on the application of O (a minor, by her litigation friend AO)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another case [2022] UKSC 3, [2022] All ER (D) 06 (Feb)

The Supreme Court dismissed the appellants’ appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division which had held that the fee charged to children applying to be registered as British citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981 fixed at £1,012 pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (the Regulations), SI 2018/330, made under the Immigration Act 2014 (IA 2014), was lawful. Applying rules of statutory interpretation, the court held that IA 2014 in authorising the Secretary of State to set the fees had not imposed any criterion of affordability. On the contrary, it had expressly empowered the Secretary of State to set fees at levels which (i) took account of benefits likely to accrue from citizenship and (ii) could subsidise the cost of the exercise of other functions in connection with immigration or nationality, thereby moving part at least of the financial burden of

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NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

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NEWS

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Law school partners with charity to give free assistance to litigants in need

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An extra bit is being added to case citations to show the pecking order of the judges concerned. Former district judge Stephen Gold has the details, in his ‘Civil way’ column in this week’s NLJ

The Labour government’s position on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is not yet clear

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