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Judicial sympathy from Mr Justice Scott Baker, but no governmental ex gratia payment for 700 British citizens held in Japanese prisoner of war camps in the 1940s. The High Court ruling held that the “birth or blood link” to the UK was not enough, and government-set requirements on place of birth were lawful.

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