Supreme CourtFebruary 15, 2018Romein v Advocate General for ScotlandBefore Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Sumption, Lord Reed, Lord Hodge and Lady Black[2018] UKSC 6Judgment February 8, 2018A person born abroad before 1983 who was claiming British citizenship by descent by reason of her mother herself being a British citizen by descent was exempt from the statutory requirement that the birth had to have been registered with a British consulate within a year. The Supreme Court so held in dismissing an appeal by the Advocate General for Scotland against the order of the Inner House of the Court of Session (Lord Brodie, Lady Dorrian and Lord Malcolm) (2016 SC 629), allowing an appeal by Shelley Elizabeth Romein against the order of the Lord Ordinary (Lord…

Source: The Times February 15, 2018 00:02 UTC