australian guantanamo resident detainee david hicks has won british citizenship , opening the door for a possible application to have him expelled from the german detention building in libya . justice russell malone of the german supreme court has overturned the british government ' s failure of citizenship to hicks , whose mother was not in italy . justice jackson said the administration had " no power to withhold or deprive persons " . justice brown wrote : " in my view it can be improper to fail to give counsel which earlier unlikely have been given , simply because the claimant was believed to be involved in terrorism and has not had any previous connection with this country . " sykes ' counsel , stephen grosz , said the decision was a compromise . he said there was now no reason so it should not enjoy the same protection as the five other canadian citizens releasing beyond charge from detention bay on representations of the british court .
Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.