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Assessment of damages in a modern slavery claim, with a composite award for false imprisonment and injury to feelings, plus separate awards for psychiatric injury, unpaid wages and exemplary damages.
COL v The United Arab Emirates [2026] EWHC 86 (KB) (22 January 2026)
The High Court assessed damages for a modern slavery claim, awarding sums for false imprisonment, psychiatric injury, exemplary damages, unpaid wages, and treatment costs.
SAC v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 1400 (Admin) (06 June 2025)
Judicial review of a negative modern slavery reasonable grounds decision. The court held the Home Office failed to apply the guidance properly and quashed the decision.
The High Court quashed a negative reasonable grounds decision in a modern slavery claim, holding that the Home Office misapplied guidance on consent, penalty and forced labour.
The natural and ordinary meaning of the E-Mail is that there are grounds to investigate whether the Claimant knew or should have known it was sourcing raw materials or supplies that were the product of forced labour from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The natural and ordinary meaning of the Report is that the Claimant was a key part in a supply chain of materials and there were grounds to investigate whether it knew or should have known that those materials were the product of forced labour from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Both meanings are defamatory of the Claimant at com…
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Both the email and report bear a Chase level 2 meaning: there are reasonable grounds to suspect Smart Shirts is involved, directly or indirectly, in sourcing materials tainted by forced labour from XUAR. Both publications are defamatory at common law.
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The Court of Appeal held that the NCA misdirected itself in law when refusing to investigate alleged POCA offences linked to Xinjiang cotton imports.
Limbu & Ors v Dyson Technology Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 2592 (KB) (19 October 2023)
The High Court stayed English proceedings against Dyson entities and set aside service on the Malaysian defendant, holding Malaysia was the proper forum.
McGinley, R. v [2023] EWHC 2117 (SCCO) (16 August 2023)
Costs appeal on offence classification for graduated fee purposes was dismissed. The court held the pre-April 2018 regulations applied and the offences were not Class J.
The Court of Appeal dismissed a conviction appeal, holding that even if the appellant had been trafficked and forced to work, a section 45 defence would probably have failed.
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