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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1970 (Admin)
Case No: AC-2025-LON-000997
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 28/07/2025
Before :
MR JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN
Between :
THE KING on the application of (1) BEL (2) BEB (3) BCC (4) BEC (5) BKJ (by her litigation friend BSJ) (6) BDM (by his litigation friend BSJ) | Claimants |
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS | Defendant |
Tim Owen KC, Ben Bundock and Tim James-Matthews (instructed by Bindmans LLP) for the Claimants
Julian Milford KC and Rupert Paines (instructed bythe Government Legal Department) for the Defendant
Hearing date: 9 July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 2pm on 28 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
Mr Justice Chamberlain:
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- Introduction
- Facts
- Application for entry clearance and appeal proceedings
- The process for leaving Gaza and the Foreign Secretary’s consular assistance policy
- What BSJ and the claimants have done for themselves
- The requests for consular assistance
- The present proceedings and the fresh decisions
- Information provided at the hearing
- The joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Justiciability
- The grounds of challenge
- Ground 2
- Submissions for the Foreign Secretary
- Discussion
- Ground 1
- Submissions for the defendant
- Discussion
- Section 31 (2A), (3C) and (3D) of the Senior Courts Act 1981
- Conclusions