Legal briefing on the rights of stateless Palestinians in the UK
September 2025
briefing provides an overview of key issues in this area, as well as good practice case law from
European jurisdictions. It does not seek to provide a comprehensive analysis of UK case law in this
field.
This briefing builds on our previous report Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees
and Stateless Persons (2022), co-published with BADIL – the Centre for Palestinian Rights &
Residence, which provides a more in-depth analysis of some of the issues discussed, the history of
Palestine, and critical reflections on European regional and national case law.4 Readers are
encouraged to consult the 2022 report, as well as the Litigation Toolkit on Statelessness for Legal
Practitioners, and complementary resources and developments published by the European
Network on Statelessness (ENS): https://www.statelessness.eu.
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European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and BADIL, Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees and Stateless Persons
(2022) pp 2-4.
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