because they were resident in Australia and Canada, were in a similar position to her. Reynolds was not involved in this class action. Chronology and judgments R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions & Another Cited as: [2002] EWHC 978 (Admin), [2002] 3 All ER 994 This case was heard in the Administration Court of the Queen's Bench Division in the High Court of Justice before the Honourable Mr. Justice Burnton. Justice Burnton said that he understood how: "Very many of the expatriate UK pensioners who do not receive uprated pensions have a strong and understandable sense of grievance ... They feel that they have been deprived of an increasingly substantial part of the fruit of their contributions ... as a result, they have formed associations to press their cause for equal treatment".para 6 The response from the Secretary of State for the DWP was that successive Governments have taken the view that increases in the UK State Pension were based on economic factors within the UK, and it would be unfair on UK tax payers to incur additional taxes to support those residents that have chosen to live abroad.para 34 The United Kingdom is the only OECD country that discriminates between pensioners living in different overseas countries.para 36 Justice Burnton also stated that "a government may lawfully decide to restrict the payment of benefits of any kind to those who are within its territorial jurisdiction, leaving the care and support of those who live elsewhere to the governments of the countries in which they live. Such a restriction may be based wholly or partly on considerations of cost, but having regard to the wide margin of discretion that must be accorded to the government, I do not think it one that a court may say is unreasonable or lacking in objective justification".para 73. Justice Burnton concluded that the decision as to whether expatriate UK pensioners received state pension benefits (including any annual increases) was a political decision rather than a judicial one, and he therefore dismissed the case, but he gave leave to appeal.paras 76 & 77 Costs were awarded against Carson. R (Reynolds) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Cited as: [2002] EWHC 426 (Admin) This case was heard in the Administration Court of the Queen's Bench Division in the High Court of Justice before the Honourable Mr. Justice Wilson. Reynolds contended that