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circumstances attach importance to it. The case went to the court of Appeal (See(1955) 1 All ER 331, (1955) Ch 238 at 254):I return at the end of my judgment to the point which I mentioned earlier and onwhich I would say one final word viz, the question of the defendant to this action.I have said that the defendant is the Secretary of State for the <strong>Home</strong> Departmentsued, that is to say by his official little as a Minister of the Crown. It is said bycounsel for the plainfiffs that , since the report of the Boundary Commissioners)disregarded the rules in the Art of 1949, therefore it is not a report within themeaning of the Act, and that the Secretary of State has neither the duty to theHouse or to anyone else nor the power or authority to take this proposed Order inColuncil to Her Majesty. A am not myself satisfied that counsel for the plaintiffs isnot in this respect on the hons of a dilemma. It the whole thing is a nullity and allhe seeks to do is to restrain a particular individual, who happens at the momentto be the Secretary of State, I am not satisfied that be ought not to sue him in hispersonal capacity as for an ordinary wrong – though, in that case, it would not beclear to me what breach of duty to the plaintiffs he was engaged on committing..On the other hand, if he does sue him and rightly sues him, in his capacity asSecretary of State, then I am not satisfied, though I express no final view it, aswe have not heard full argument, that the which, having regard to the terms ofthe Crown Proceedings Act, 1947, with lie. Moreover, I am not satisfied, havingregard to s 21 of that Act, that on this alternative the plainfiff could in any even580

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