‘application for permission to appeal. The Appellant’s case is that he is a British overseas citizen and entitled to a British passport. He says he was born to Lebanese national parents on 5 February 1961 in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone was then a part colony and part protectorate such that anyone born in the country had status as either a British subject or a citizen of the United Kingdom and the colonies or a British protected person.’
Jackson LJ
[2016] EWCA Civ 78
Bailii
England and Wales
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See Also – Fayad, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for The Home Department CA 31-Jan-2018
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