Hicks v Home Secretary (SIAC)

Tom represented David Hicks, a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, in an appeal before the Special Immigration Appeal Commission challenging a decision to deprive Mr Hicks of his British citizenship. The cases raised issues about the use of evidence obtained by torture and in inhuman conditions (Tom was junior counsel to Michael Fordham QC and appeared as sole counsel in preliminary hearings). Tom previously acted for Mr Hicks in an urgent application in the Administrative Court to enforce the decision in R (Hicks) v SSHD [2006] EWCA Civ 400.