Shamima Begum judgment today

Court of Appeal to decide whether she can come home

Three senior judges will rule this morning on an appeal by Shamima Begum, who was deprived of her British citizenship by the then home secretary on national security grounds after she had travelled to Syria as a 15-year-old in 2015. She wants to return to the UK.

Shamima Begum

Begum remains in a Syrian refugee camp but her lawyers brought an appeal against her deprivation of citizenship last October. It was one of the first cases heard by the new lady chief justice of England and Wales, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, sitting with Lord Justice Bean and Lady Justice Whipple.