The Appeal Court has upheld the decision of the High Court that those families forcibly removed from all but one of the Chagos Islands, by the British Government in the 1960s and 1970s, should be allowed to return.
The Chagos Islands are situated in the Indian Ocean, with the population being removed to site the Diego Garcia US airbase. The Government had claimed that the removal of the islanders had been for "peace, order and good government".
The Appeal Court dismissed the government action, ruling that it was using a method both unlawful and an abuse of power. Lord Justice Waller attacked Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, personally by stating that she "was acting without any constraint". Lord Justice Hooper and Mr Justice Cresswell ruled that the islander's interest had been ignored and that government actions had been "irrational and unlawful".
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