R (Eyton-Hughes) v Secretary of State for Defence

Subject Matter

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 — Armed Forces (Services Complaints) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/1955), regs 9(2)(b), 13(2)(b)

[2024] EWHC 1932 (Admin); [2025] ICR 587; [2024] WLR(D) 374, KBD