R (Hoareau) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Subject Matter

CROWN — Colony — Resettlement — Population exiled from United Kingdom colony — Government refusing to allow exiled population’s resettlement in colony but providing support package to live outside colony — Exiled claimants seeking judicial review — Whether rationality or proportionality appropriate test of review — Whether decision breaching claimants’ Convention rights — Whether decision made in breach of public sector equality duty — Whether support package lawful — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8, Pt II, art 1 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15) (as amended by Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (SI 2010/2279), art 11), ss 149, 217, Sch 18, para 2

[2019] EWHC 221 (Admin); [2019] 1 WLR 4105; [2019] WLR(D) 85, QBD

CROWN — Colony — Resettlement — Population exiled from United Kingdom colony — Government refusing to allow population’s resettlement in colony — Whether decision to refuse resettlement breaching claimants’ Convention rights — Whether court obliged to apply test of anxious scrutiny on claim for judicial review of decision — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953) (Cmnd 8969), art 56

[2020] EWCA Civ 1010; [2021] 1 WLR 472; [2020] WLR(D) 453, CA

CROWN — Colony — Resettlement — Population removed and excluded from United Kingdom colony — Government refusing to allow resettlement of exiled citizens — Whether decision unlawful — Whether support package for population lawful — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8, Pt II, art 1 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 149

[2019] EWHC 221 (Admin); [2019] 1 WLR 4105; [2019] WLR(D) 85, QBD

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