Forced Labour in UK Law

  • Hounga v Allen and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 July 2014
    ...... (Instructed by Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit) . Respondent . Thomas Linden QC ...-Wilkinson at p 376, a claimant "is entitled to recover if he is not forced to plead or rely on the illegality, even if it emerges that the title on ......
  • White v White
    • House of Lords
    • 26 October 2000
    ......This traditional division of labour is no longer the order of the day. Frequently both parents work. Sometimes ... whatever the division of labour chosen by the husband and wife, or forced upon them by circumstances, fairness requires that this should not ......
  • Sepet v SSHD
    • House of Lords
    • 20 March 2003
    ...... (in articles 4 and 8 respectively) outlaws slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour. But in article 8(3)(c) of the ICCPR it is expressly ......
  • Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills intervening)
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 April 2012
    ...... which are justified, in particular by legitimate employment policy, labour market and vocational training objectives, and discrimination which must ...If equity partners could not be forced to retire at 65, but employees (including salaried partners) could be, it ......
  • Basfar v Wong
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 July 2022
    ...... trafficking who was exploited by Mr Basfar and his family by being forced to work in circumstances of modern slavery. She has brought a claim ..., the claim can properly be characterised as relating to (a) forced labour and/or (b) domestic servitude. . (3) Human rights arguments . ......
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 April 1969
    ......So are the words so unequivocal that we are forced to give them a meaning which cannot have been intended? I do not think so. ... a house, car and various household goods such as machinery of a labour-saving character. They do not, in my opinion, ipso facto become family ......
  • Hill v C. A. Parsons & Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 November 1971
    ......, the company sought to comply with the stipulations which DATA had forced upon them. On 15th May 1971, the company wrote to thirty-eight of the ...National Dock Labour Board (1957) A. C., referring at page 500 to the ordinary master and ......
  • TD and AD (Trafficked women)
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    • 03 June 2015
    ...... that they are especially vulnerable to re-trafficking, or being forced into other exploitative situations . ... because there are key actors who are not yet involved, such as labour inspectors, and partly through the reluctance of VOTs to be identified. ......
  • R (MS (Pakistan)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 March 2020
    ...... [MS (Pakistan)] . (Instructed by Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit) . Respondent . Sir James Eadie ...” and article 4.2 that “No-one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour”. This raises the broader question of the ......
  • Lambert v Lambert
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 November 2002
    ...... between themselves, to organise the overall matrimonial division of labour. How can it then be said fairly, at the end of the day, that one role was ...So she would be forced to draw down capital in order to remain in the former matrimonial home, ......
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