DISCLAIMER This guide aims to assist lawyers and their clients to plan strategies and tactics for litigation in relation to statelessness, lack of recognition of nationality and issue of identity documents before national or international jurisdictions, and to find and interpret the relevant law. It does not constitute professional legal advice. Lawyers and potential litigants using the guide must read the original instruments, laws and judgments referred to in order to consider their application and relevance in their own context. U N H C R | L I T I G AT I N G T H E R I G H T T O A N AT I O N A L I T Y: A G U I D E F O R P R AC T I T I O N E R S 3