Supreme court breakthrough for sec 4C Registration applicants

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Interesting Supreme Court ruling in the case of Romein.

http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2018/6.html

The position of the Home office was no nonsensical, that no reasonable court would have been expected to adopt it.

Essentially the Home Office was seeking to preclude from qualifying, all those who would have qualified under Section 5 (1)(b) of the Nationality Act 1948, to be registered as a British Citizen, had it been possible for women to pass on citizenship to their overseas born children.

Now the court has ruled that, the registration under that act within 1 year of birth, must not be applied to these people, as it would essentially eliminate them from qualifying .

This ruling only affects those women who were British citizen by descent and gave birth to children overseas. If the women were british otherwise than by descent, then this ruling has no application.