26 May 2023
Could a legal claim for reparations for the transatlantic slave trade succeed? Thomas Roe KC of 3 Hare Court considers a range of possibilities and potential obstacles to such a claim, in this week’s NLJ.
Roe asks: do states have a tenable claim in public international law against states complicit in the transatlantic slave trade? He covers accounts of the trade itself from a book written by an enslaved man who later managed to buy his freedom, and published in 1789. He considers jurisdiction, the intertemporal rule, and other factors.
The CARICOM Reparations Commission was established in 2013 to prepare the case for reparatory justice for descendants.
However, Roe suggests, the route to justice is far from straightforward—read more here.
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