In the case of the Chagos Archipelago, in 2000, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that a local ordinance made by the Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory exiling the islanders was unlawful, a decision which was accepted by the British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
在查戈斯群島案中，英格蘭和威爾士高等法院裁定由英屬印度洋領地高級專員做出的放逐島民的地方法令是非法的，由英國外交大臣羅賓·庫克接受的決定。