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NLJ this week: Reflections on slavery

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01 October 2020
Issue: 7904 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights , Constitutional law , Equality
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The disturbing story of how the law came to support the trans-Atlantic slave trade is told in NLJ this week

Satvinder S Juss, 3 Hare Court, investigates the justifications used and excuses made by the courts, from ‘categorising slaves as infidels’ (which led enslaved people to look for clergymen to baptise them) to treating slavery as a relationship created under colonial law.

Juss asks how this could have been allowed to happen and what happened to the rule of law? Read in full here.

Issue: 7904 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights , Constitutional law , Equality
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