Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights yesterday rejected a request to revise its own 1998 judgment throwing out a case against Britain by two army veterans over exposure to nuclear tests.
The court, in its initial judgment, ruled that Britain respected procedural rules that would have allowed Mr Kenneth McGinley and Mr Edward Egan to be given a pension if they had suffered from exposure to radioactivity. The men had said their health deteriorated as a result of exposure to nuclear tests on Christmas Island in the 1950s.