The applicant was a Pakistani national who had been in the Indian army during the secind world war, and had been imprisoned by the Japanese. The defendant had set up a system of ex gratia payments to five classes of beneficiary, but the claimant fell outside those classes because of his nationality. He claimed race discrimination.
Held: Discrimination on the basis of nationality was not necessarily race discrimination.
Judges:
Ward LJ, Latham LJ, Sir Peter Gibson
Citations:
[2007] EWCA Civ 983, Times
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Gurung, Pun and Thapa v Ministry of Defence QBD 27-Nov-2002
The applicants were British Nepalese soldiers who had been imprisoned by the Japanese in the second world war. They challenged the decision of the respondent in November 2000 to exclude them from a compensation scheme, but to allow other British . .
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Discrimination, Armed Forces
Updated: 11 July 2022; Ref: scu.251774