Supreme Court Rules in favour of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin as he takes legal action against Home Secretary
In a unanimous, landmark Judgment handed down today, the Supreme Court has allowed in full an appeal by Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin in his libel action against the Home Secretary.
|
The Court has reversed the decision of the lower Courts to strike out the claim as an abuse of process, and confirmed that Mr Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin should be permitted to pursue his claim at trial.
Mueen-Uddin’s claim relates to the publication by the Home Office in 2019 of allegations of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1973 and been a UK citizen since 1984, has always vigorously denied the Bangladeshi authorities’ allegations as being entirely false and politically- motivated. As Lord Reed, President of the Supreme Court (giving the judgment on behalf of the Court), observes: “it is difficult to imagine a graver allegation than guilt of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that “the allegation is especially grave when it is made by the government of this country against one of its own citizens”. |
“it is difficult to imagine a graver allegation than guilt of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that “the allegation is especially grave when it is made by the government of this country against one of its own citizens”.
|