By Stephen Allen
ISBN-10: 1782254749
ISBN-13: 9781782254744
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In 1965, the united kingdom excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), in reference to the founding of a US army facility at the island of Diego Garcia. for that reason, the population of the Chagos Islands have been secretly exiled to Mauritius, the place they grew to become chronically impoverished. This booklet considers the resonance of overseas legislation for the Chagos Islanders. As BIOT constitutes a 'non-self-governing territory,' the booklet explores the level to which the suitable of self-determination, indigenous land rights, and a number of tasks contained in appropriate human rights treaties might help the Chagossian correct to come to BIOT. even though, the rights of the Chagos Islanders are premised at the assumption that the united kingdom possesses a legitimate sovereignty declare over BIOT. The facts means that this declare is questionable and it truly is disputed by way of Mauritius. for this reason, the Mauritian declare threatens to compromise the entitlements of the Chagos Islanders in appreciate of BIOT as a question of foreign legislation. The publication illustrates the continuing difficulties bobbing up from foreign law's endorsement of the territorial integrity of colonial devices for the aim of decolonization, on the rate of the countervailing claims of colonial self-determination through non-European peoples that inhabited an identical colonial unit. It makes use of the competing claims to the Chagos Islands to illustrate the necessity for a extra nuanced method of the answer of sovereignty disputes as a result of the legacy of ecu colonialism.
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84 In particular, it tested the scope of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the case of Coughlan. In that case the assurance was unqualified (a home for life in a residential care home); it had ‘the character of a contract’;85 was directed at a few individuals; and involved a small financial cost. In Bancoult 2, the statement was a general press release. Any recognition for a right of abode in BIOT seemed to depend on foreign policy and defence considerations. The statement was directed at several thousand Chagossians and, as a matter of international law, it could require considerable public fund ing.
But it does not mean that their allocation of decision-making power to the other branches of government is a matter of courtesy or deference. The principles upon which decision-making powers are allocated are principles of law. The courts are the inde pendent branch of government and the legislative and executive are, directly and indirectly, respectively, the elected branches of government. 12 Despite the constitutional shift in favour of Parliament, the Crown retains considerable discretionary powers (prerogative powers), notably in the areas of defence, foreign affairs and colonial governance.
See the transcript of the evidence of Richard Gifford to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into Good Governance in British Overseas Territories, 23 January 2008. 28 ╇ ibid, [93]. 30 Accordingly, the UK government claimed that resettlement of the outer Chagos Islands would compromise the base’s security since it would increase the risk of terrorist infiltration and attack. In R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (‘Bancoult 2’) the claimant sought an order that the 2004 Orders were ultra vires (beyond the lawful powers of the Sovereign in Council).
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