'The Court of Appeal ... Appears to Have Overlooked the Limitations to its Competence, Both Institutional and Constitutional, to Decide Questions of National Security': Shamima Begum, the Supreme Court and the Relationship Between the Judiciary and the Executive
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Monaghan, Chris
- Source
- Judicial Review. Jun 2021, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p134-145. 12p.
- Subject
- *APPELLATE courts
*CONSTITUTIONAL courts
*FAIRNESS
*NATIONAL interest
*JUSTICE administration
*NATIONAL security
*REFUGEE camps
*MINDFULNESS
- Language
- ISSN
- 1085-4681
Sajid Javid MP, the then Home Secretary, had written to Ms Begum on 19 February 2019 informing her that he would make an order pursuant to his power under s 40(5) of the British Nationality Act 1981 to deprive Ms Begum of her British Citizenship. The Executive 60 I R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission i (n 1) [106]; I R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission i (n 19) [119]-[121] (Flaux LJ). 1. This article considers the recent decision of the Supreme Court in I R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission i .[1] 2. [Extracted from the article]