Shamima Begum set to find out if she can appeal removal of British citizenship

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Shamima Begum will face a wait to find out whether she has won a Court of Appeal bid over the removal of her British citizenship.Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 - at the age of 15 - before her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.Earlier this year, the now-24-year-old lost a challenge against the decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).Begum's lawyers brought a bid to overturn this decision at the Court of Appeal, with the Home Office opposing the challenge.At the start of the hearing on Tuesday, Samantha Knights KC told the court the government had failed to consider the legal duties owed to Ms Begum as a potential victim of trafficking or as a result of "state failures" in her case.She said in written submissions: "The appellant's trafficking was a mandatory, relevant consideration in determining whether it was conducive to the public good and proportionate to deprive her of citizenship, but it was not considered by the Home Office."As a consequence, the deprivation decision was unlawful."But at the hearing in London on Wednesday, Sir James Eadie KC, for the department, said that decisions over whether someone is a victim of trafficking or whether they should be deprived of their citizenship "have fundamentally different bases and roles".He continued: "The focus in the trafficking regime is on the protection of the individual and there's really no countervailing public interest at that point."But here the regime is different, the regime in operation is the deprivation regime and the rationale is entirely different, it is the protection of the public at large."The barrister later said the "key feature" of Ms