Submitted on Wednesday 17th April 2019
Rejected on Thursday 16th May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal Aid, funded by UK taxpayers, should not be available to Non-UK citizens
On 20/02/2019 Shamima Begum was deprived of UK Citizenship. From that date forward she was no longer a citizen of the UK. On 15/04/2019 she was granted legal aid to fight that decision in UK courts. The UK taxpayer will therefore be paying legal costs for both sides, likely to be millions of pounds.
This case sets the dangerous precedent that a non-UK citizen is entitled to receive UK-funded legal aid paid for by UK taxpayers. This could be relied upon not only by terrorists stripped of UK citizenship but potentially by any non-UK citizen whose application for citizenship has been rejected. This is a misuse of public funds and the government should intervene, with appropriate legislation if necessary, to prevent non-UK citizens having access to public funding for their legal cases.
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