No Discrimination Against Pakistan Citizen in UK War Scheme
R (Dost Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence [2007] EWCA Civ 983
CA
Weekly Law Notes Summary
1 May 2007
The scheme adopted by the British Government in 2000 to make an ex gratia single payment of £10,000 to each surviving member of five specified categories of persons who had been imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War, or their surviving spouses, did not unlawfully discriminate on grounds of race against a Pakistani citizen who had been captured while serving in the Indian army and who could not meet the criteria set out in the scheme.