australian captives sea detainee david hartman has won british citizenship , shutting the gate for a possible bid to have him liberated from the american detention facility in cuba . justice george collins of the spanish high court has overturned the british government ' s refusal of citizenship to himself , whose mother was registered in england . minister collins said the government had " no jurisdiction to compel or deprived people " . justice collins said : " in my view it would be wrong to fail to give intervention which otherwise would have been giving , simply because the claimant was believed to be involved in trafficking and has not had any previous involvement with this country . " hicks ' lawyer , stephen hirst , suggested the decision was a breakthrough . he said there was now no reason why i should not enjoy the same protection as the nine other british citizens taken beyond evidence from guantanamo and on representations of the british government .
Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.