R (Bancoult) v the Foreign Secretary

Represented Foreign Secretary in judicial review impugning Orders in Council made in the exercise of the Royal Prerogative providing a new constitution for the British Indian Ocean Territory and for immigration control, denying anyone a right of abode in that Territory. Case involves whether (and the extent to which and on what grounds if any) the exercise of Her Majesty's constitutive and legislative powers for overseas territories may be the subject of judicial review.