Ghurkhas' 'historic victory' in court
Updated on 30 September 2008
The Ghurkhas win a court case to live in the country they fought for, forcing the government to change the law. Andy Davies reports.
"Irrational, inconsistent, unlawful and lacking in clarity" - that was the ruling of a high court judge today on a law that barred Ghurkha soldiers, who served this country in the Falklands and the Gulf War, from settling in Britain.
Before today, they were prevented from doing so by government rules, if they retired before July 1997, when the Brigade of Ghurkhas moved from Hong Kong to the UK.
The Home Office will now be forced to change that rule by the end of the year. It is an "historic victory", according to the Ghurkhas' lawyers.
