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• The real scandal of the Shamima Begum citizenship case | Letters

  26-02-2023 19:51
  
  Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption on last week’s ruling on the home secretary’s decision to deprive Begum of her citizenship. Plus letters from Ilina Todorovska, Owen Stewart, Andrew Snowdon and Carmel BedfordProf Conor Gearty complains about the special immigration appeals commission’s “deference” to the government in its judgment on Shamima Begum (Shamima Begum has shown up courts’ deference to this government. It’s a worrying new era, 23
  
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• Trans women with male genitalia banned from women’s prisons in England and Wales

  26-02-2023 18:15
  
  New rules also cover transgender women who have been convicted of violent offencesRules barring some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales are to come into force on Monday, the justice secretary has announced.Dominic Raab had already announced in October that trans women with male genitalia or who had committed sexual offences would not be allowed in women’s prisons. Continue reading...
  
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• Trans violent offenders banned from women’s prisons in England and Wales

  26-02-2023 18:15
  
  New rules also cover transgender women ‘with their male genitalia intact’, says Dominic RaabRules barring some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales are to come into force on Monday, the justice secretary has announced.Dominic Raab had already announced in October that trans women with male genitalia or who had committed sexual offences would not be allowed in women’s prisons. Continue reading...
  
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• Jess Phillips and Iain Duncan Smith lead calls to criminalise ‘cuckooing’

  26-02-2023 15:00
  
  Practice of taking over people’s homes should be included in an overhaul of the Modern Slavery Act, say MPs “Cuckooing” in the homes of vulnerable people by drug gangs should become a criminal offence, according to a call from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) thinktank which has gathered cross-party backing.Labour MP Jess Phillips and the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith are leading calls for the practice – which was spotlighted in the BBC series Happy Vall
  
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• Tighter regulation of psychologists in family law cases up to MPs, says senior judge

  26-02-2023 12:00
  
  Landmark judgment by family court president Sir Andrew McFarlane confirms anyone can use the title ‘psychologist’.England’s most senior family court judge has advised there is a “need for rigour” and “clarity” when instructing psychologists to give expert evidence – but has stopped short of saying the family courts should never appoint those who are “unregulated”.Instead Sir Andrew McFarlane claims it is a matter for the psychological p
  
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• Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold on to their citizenship

  26-02-2023 09:00
  
  After the Shamima Begum decision, figures show a dramatic increase in challenges to Home OfficeAt least 75 people successfully overturned Home Office orders to strip them of their British citizenship last year, according to records obtained by the Observer, which reveal a dramatic increase in challenges to the government’s use of the controversial powers.On Wednesday, Shamima Begum, 23, lost her appeal against the Home Office’s decision to remove her British citizenship and is strand
  
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• The Observer view on the government’s pointless voter ID scheme | Observer editorial

  26-02-2023 07:01
  
  This insistence on photo ID to vote in May’s elections runs the risk of disenfranchising several groups of people – many of whom aren’t natural ConservativesCombating voter fraud is a worthy objective. And that is what the government says it is doing by requiring all voters to show photo ID before being allowed to cast their ballot in person from May. Ministers would have us believe this is a landmark reform that will prevent fraudsters from posing as other people in order to c
  
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