The Industrial Cases Reports
[2025] ICR 587
King’s Bench Division
Rex (Eyton-Hughes and another) v Secretary of State for Defence
[2024] EWHC 1932 (Admin)
2024 April 23;
July 31
July 31
Judge Tindal sitting as a High Court judge
Employment— Armed forces— Service complaint— Members of armed forces resigning during investigations into complaints against them— Complaints dismissed— Members making service complaint, contending resignations justifiable, and seeking post-resignation losses— Claims largely upheld by decision body and appeal body but minimal financial awards made— Ombudsman refusing to investigate— Claimants seeking judicial review of appeal body’s failure to compensate for post-resignation losses— Proper defendant to claim— Proper scope of redress in service complaints— Whether appeal body entitled not to award quantifiable payment as unreasonable for claimants to resign—
Armed Forces Act 2006 (c 52), ss 340A, 340C
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Armed Forces (Services Complaints) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/1955), regs 9(2)(b), 13(2)(b)