The Respondent and his employer were the subject of a criminal investigation by a UK Legal Enforcement Body. In the context of that investigation, the Legal Enforcement Body sent a confidential Letter of Request to a foreign state seeking, among other things, information and documents relating to the Respondent.
The Appellant, a media company, obtained a copy of the Letter of Request, and published an article referring to the fact that information had been requested in respect of the Respondent and detailing the matters in respect of which he was being investigated. The Respondent brought a successful claim against the Appellant for misuse of private information. The Appellant’s appeal against that judgment was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, and it now seeks to appeal to the Supreme Court.

On 11 December 2015, His Honour Judge Devlin made an order for the extradition of Mr O’Connor to Greece in accordance with a European Arrest Warrant. Pursuant to section 26(4) of the Extradition Act 2003, Mr O’Connor then had seven days in which to give notice of any application for leave to appeal against this order. Mr O’Connor’s solicitor lodged this application on 16 December 2015 but failed to serve notice of the application on the Appellant until 4 January 2016 owing to an oversight. The question was whether Mr O’Connor’s appeal could nevertheless be entertained on the basis that he had done everything reasonably possibly to give notice of the appeal pursuant to section 26(5) of the Extradition Act 2003. The Divisional Court in Northern Ireland allowed the appeal to proceed, drawing a distinction between the actions of Mr O’Connor and the actions of his solicitor. The Appellant seeks to appeal against this order.

Under the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 ("the Regulations"), the Secretary of State charges a mandatory fee of £1,012 to all children applying to be registered as British citizens under various provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981. 

                The Appellants argue that, as the fee is unaffordable for a significant number of children, and so makes their statutory right to be registered as British citizens meaningless in practice, the Regulations must be unlawful. The High Court and the Court of Appeal rejected that argument. The Appellants now appeal to the Supreme Court.