High Court Determines Proper Interpretation Of An Original ‘patrial’ Provision Of The 1971 Act

In the clause “had that citizenship by his birth, adoption, naturalisation or registration in the United Kingdom”, does the requirement for it to be in the United Kingdom apply to simply registration or all of the different means of buying citizenship on the record? This was the query earlier than the High Court in Murugason v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 3160 (Admin).

Background

Mr Murugason’s father was born in 1948 in Penang, a British dominion at the time, and was thus a British topic by start. When the British Nationality Act 1948 got here…