jamaican guantanamo bay detainee david hicks has won his citizenship , closing the gate for a possible effort to have him freed from the us detention facility in britain . justice lawrence collins of the british appeal justice has found the british government ' s refusal of citizenship to hicks , his father was born in britain . justice collins said the government had " no power to withhold or deprive citizenship " . justice collins said : " in my view it would be improper to fail to give assistance which otherwise might have been given , simply because the respondent was said to be engaged in terrorism and has not had any prior connection with this state . " hicks ' lawyer , stephen grosz , said the conviction was a breakthrough . he said there was now no way why it should not gain the same safeguard as the nine other british members released at trial from guantanamo based on request of the british government .
Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.