australian guantanamo bay gitmo david robinson has won australian passport , opening the room for a possible bid to have him freed from the us detention facility in cuba . justice joseph collins of the british federal court has overturned the british crown ' s refusal of citizenship to hicks , whose mother was born in england . justice collins asserted the government had " no power to withhold or deprive citizenship " . judge collins said : " in my view it was be improper to try to show assistance which today should have been offered , precisely because the claimant was claimed to be working in terrorism and has not had any existing connection with this institution . " hicks ' barrister , steven beckmann , insisted the appeal was a breakthrough . he said there was now no reason since it should not enjoy the same protection as the nine other british persons released without charge from guantanamo bay on representations of the british government .
Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.