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UK can sign deal handing Chagos Islands to Mauritius, High Court rules
The High Court has ruled the government can sign the Chagos Island deal after a late-night injunction attempted to block it.
Early on Thursday, an emergency injunction from the High Court had stopped the government from concluding the Chagos Island deal to hand over sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius. Mr Justice Goose had allowed "interim relief" to Bertrice Pompe, who had previously taken steps to bring legal action against the Foreign Office over the deal.
Ms Pompe is a Chagossian woman who sees the deal as a betrayal of their rights. Politics latest: Prisoners could serve only a third of sentence in jail The order, granted at 2.25am, had said the government may take "no conclusive or legally binding step to conclude its negotiations concerning the possible transfer of the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government or bind itself as to the particular terms of any such transfer".
But after a hearing at the High Court on Thursday, a judge said the temporary injunction should be discharged. This means the government could still sign the Chagos deal in the coming hours.
Downing Street welcomed this decision, saying the agreement is "vital to protect the British people and our national security". Mr Justice Chamberlain told the High Court that the "public interest and the interests of the United Kingdom would be substantially prejudiced by the grant or continuance of interim relief.
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