British nationality law

INTRODUCTION International Law defines the legal responsibilities of States in their conduct with each other, and their treatment of individuals within State boundaries. Its domain encompasses a wide range of issues of international concern such as human rights, disarmament, international crime, refugees, migration, problems of nationality, the treatment of prisoners, the use of force, and the conduct of war, among others. It also regulates the global commons, such as the environment,…

Kingdom is referred to having an unwritten constitution, but that is not strictly true. This may not refer in one single text, such as Germany or USA, but large parts are written down with much of it in the laws passed in parliament, these are called constitutional statue. According to Lord Justice Laws in the case Thoburn v Sunderland City Council this is an act witch either the conditions the legal relationship between the individual and the state in some way or enlarges or diminishes the…

Is it correct to argue that human rights have existed since the earliest times within human history? The belief that all human beings are entitled to certain humans rights is fairly new across the world even though it is argued that they have existed in many different traditions before this (www1.umn.edu). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been described as a succession of international breakthroughs and revolutionary declarations (www.krisis.eu). It proclaims that all human beings…

History Culminating The speech Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier delivered in 1904 made a bold statement in which he stated all citizens of Canada should be united and treated fairly. Although there has been many times in which Canada had made poor decisions, I still think Canada has improved since 1914. Canada, a country that has been improving was historically bound to make mistakes. Certain issues and events that helped Canada become what it is today include: women 's rights, U.S…

submitted that EU law applied, and that under articles TFEU 18 and TFEU 45 that Court, by denying jurisdiction, would discriminate based on nationality against the applicant. Moreover, the applicant made several submissions both in the grounds for appeal as well as in the skeleton arguments asking that Court, as the Court of last instance, to put forward the question of discrimination under TFEU 18 and TFEU 45 to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for its opinion…

point of controversy with the current state of things despite it has been regulated many times during nation’s history. To this end, U.S. Government through the history of the country has enacted different laws and has regulated the entry of foreigners to the country. The first immigration law enacted by the US government was precisely made by the Framers when they drafted the First Naturalization Act in 1790, in which stated that “ any alien, being a free white person, who shall have resided…

Chapter 3: Pinter’s Political Activism and Political Plays Can art be separated from politics is a question which has been debated upon by many critics. Personally, I feel that since art is a representation of life, and politics in life begins when at least two individuals are involved, it can never be separated from politics. However hard an artist tries to separate his work from the tricky games of politics, his efforts turn out to be futile as the artist’s own idea in his work is a political…

effectiveness could be considered relevant or irrelevant. Justices of the Peace, or magistrates derive from the 1195’s Richard I’s knights who were requested to maintain the peace in areas where there was a lack of governing body and controlling that laws imposed by the king were being followed. They were called ‘Keepers of the Peace’. 1327 Act of Parliament selected men to ‘guard the peace’, in their country. The word ‘Justices of the Peace’ was first used in 1361, and their roles have evolved…

men, who were issued a certificate of a suspected international terrorist under the Section 21 of the Anti – Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and who were detained under Section 23 of that Act. Their Lordships have answered the questions of law, forming the ratio decidendi. Firstly, did Article 15 apply in the Belmarsh case in order to allow the derogation from Article 5 and the suspension of the right to liberty of the suspected terrorists? Article 15 states that in the time of war or…

Olaudah Equiano was a famous African in London who had supported the British movement to end slave trading. Olaudah is known for his famous 1789 autobiography, which described his experience as a slave. The autobiography, The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, goes into detail of his experience of when he was kidnapped and sold to slave traders. Olaudah was one of millions of Africans who were taken from his homeland and sold into slavery.…