THE Court of Appeal has ruled that the destruction of a protest camp by the army in 2012 breached the constitutional rights of seven members of the Highway Reroute Movement (HRM).

The HRM's leader, Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, had challenged the state’s continuation of a segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension between Debe and Mon Desir. The HRM said state officials had given them verbal assurances that the project would pause for technical review and that these representations created “legitimate expectations.”

After Kublalsingh and the HRM's victory at the High Court in 2020, the Attorney General’s Office appealed to the Court of Appeal.