Shamima Begum case: lawyers can appeal but only on point of law

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Past supreme court ruling meant Siac judges found themselves unable to contradict home secretary

Almost exactly four years from being stripped of her citizenship, Shamima Begum’s, hopes of returning to the UK have been dealt a bitter blow with the special immigration appeals commission (Siac) upholding the home secretary’s decision.

It is the latest development – and unlikely to be the last – in a legal fight that Begum’s family began in March 2019, one month after the then home secretary Sajid Javid took his controversial decision, shortly after she was found in a refugee camp in north-east Syria.

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