‘Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with 1 Crown Office Row’s Alasdair Henderson about how the UK is tackling issues of human trafficking and modern slavery, both within its own borders and internationally.’
Law Pod UK, 19th November 2018
Source: audioboom.com
‘A government decision to slash financial support for modern slavery victims has been ruled unlawful by the High Court.’
The Independent, 22nd November 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Nine members of an organised crime group based in the East Midlands and Latvia have been jailed for human trafficking offences against 28 victims.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 7th November 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Four members of a Huddersfield grooming gang have been jailed for a harrowing campaign of violence and sexual abuse against three vulnerable girls.’
The Guardian, 1st November 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Car washes will be given a Kitemark-style scheme to crack down on modern slavery.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who was trafficked into Britain for prostitution and later locked up in an immigration centre is entitled to substantial damages from the Home Office for unlawful detention, the high court has ruled.’
The Guardian, 18th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘This report examines the UK construction industry’s response to the Modern Slavery Act.’
Home Office, 9th October 2018
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘A gang of human traffickers, including six members of the same family, have been jailed for more than 24 years’ for trafficking and exploiting vulnerable and homeless people.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 4th October 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A man who trafficked three children, including a 14-year-old girl, to use as drug dealers in a “county lines” ring has been jailed for 14 years in a landmark prosecution.’
The Independent, 4th October 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘UK child protection organisations have called for Facebook to improve transparency on its site, after a new lawsuit in America claimed that it is being used to lure children into the sex trade. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said Facebook should be forced to report how many child abusers it identifies online to help measure the scale of the problem.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd Ocotber 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Human trafficking or modern slavery is one of the most appalling forms of criminal activity today. It’s also one of the most widespread and fastest-growing.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2018
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The UK has developed, alongside the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, principles for nations to adopt to tackle modern slavery in global supply chains.’
Home Office, 25th September 2018
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘The first person to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for human trafficking outside the UK has today had her sentence increased after the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, personally argued that her sentence was too low in the Court of Appeal.’
Attorney General's Office, 20th September 2018
Source: www.gov.uk
‘The Supreme Court held that the terms of the Convention do not entitle the respondents to be resettled in the UK metropolitan territory. Overall, a state’s duties to a refugee reaching a particular territory – whose international relations the state controls – are in principle and in normal circumstances limited to providing and securing the refugee’s Convention rights in that context.’
UKSC Blog, 24th August 2018
Source: ukscblog.com
‘In a complex interim judgment dealing with threshold issues, the Supreme Court has asad-khanheld that both the Refugee Convention 1951 and the 1967 Protocol extend to the UK’s Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Britain occupied Cyprus between 1878 and 1960. Secretive deal making with the Ottoman Empire led the British Empire to forge an alliance with the Turks to protect them from Russia. The British initially occupied and administered Cyprus and ultimately annexed it upon the outbreak of the First World War when the British and the Turks found themselves fighting on opposite sides. Turkey recognised the annexation in the Treaty of Lausanne 1923 and that status continued until the settlement between the UK, Greece and Turkey in 1960 when Cyprus became a republic. Like Britain’s other Mediterranean possessions the island was of military and strategic importance rather than economic value. Upon independence in 1960, the UK retained sovereignty over the SBAs to accommodate military bases which are now the only notable British strategic assets in the eastern Mediterranean. These proceedings threw up a number of issues including the respondents’ entitlement to resettlement in the UK under the Convention, the validity of the UK-Cyprus Memorandum of Understanding of 2003 on illegal migrants and asylum seekers, and whether the UK is in principle entitled to discharge its obligations under the Convention by arranging for support to be provided by Cyprus?’
UKSC Blog, 24th August 2018
Source: ukscblog.com
‘Many teenage survivors of modern slavery are being sent back to nations where they have no relatives and are again at risk of being targeted by traffickers, according to new data.’
Rights Info, 15th August 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Slavery still exists in the UK, and it can be found in nail bars, factories, car washes and the cleaning industry.’
BBC News, 10th August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Anna Beale represented the claimant, Ms Ajayi, a migrant domestic worker, in this unusual High Court claim brought against her former employers, Mr and Mrs Abu, for payment of the minimum wage, harassment, breach of contract and personal injury. In August 2017, the court found that the “family worker” exemption to the requirement to pay the minimum wage did not apply in this case. The quantification of that claim, together with Ms Ajayi’s other claims, was dealt with in a further hearing, the final judgment from which has recently been released.’
Cloisters, 11th July 2018
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘People-smugglers behind a scheme to bring migrants across the Channel on jet skis are facing jail.’
The Guardian, 7th August 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The UK’s modern slavery legislation is to be reviewed as criminal gangs find new ways to exploit victims, the Home Office has announced.’
BBC News, 30th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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