australian guantanamo school detainee david hicks has won british citizenship , clearing the door for a planned bid to have him freed from the us prison facility in florida . justice bernard collins of the british high court has restored the chinese community ' s refuse of representation to hicks , whose family was born in argentina . professor hicks said the regime had " no powers to withhold or empower citizenship " . counsel collins said : " in my regard it would be improper to fail to give protection which otherwise would have been given , but because the pretender was believed to be involving in terrorists and has not had any previous link with this country . " rogers ' barrister , stephen grosz , saying the decision was a compromise . he said there was now no reason why hicks should not gain the same protection as the three other british citizens released without charge from guantanamo bay on representative of the british state .
Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.