Ndiki Mutua and Others v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | The Honourable Mr Justice McCombe |
| Judgment Date | 05 October 2012 |
| Neutral Citation | [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB) |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
| Date | 05 October 2012 |
| Docket Number | Case No: HQ09X02666 |
[2012] EWHC 2678 (QB)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
Royal Courts of Justice Strand,
London. WC2A 2T
Before:
The Hon. Mr. Justice McCombe
Case No: HQ09X02666
Between:
(1) Ndiki Mutua
(2) Paulo Nzili
(3) Wambugu Wa Nyingi
(4) Jane Muthoni Mara
(5) Susan Ngondi
Claimants
and
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Defendant
Richard Hermer QC, Phillippa KaufmannQC, Alex Gask and Henry Witcomb (instructed by Leigh Day & Co) for the Claimants
Guy Mansfield QC, Alex Ruck Keene and Jack Holborn (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Defendant
Elizabeth-Ann Gumbel QC (instructed by Redress as the Intervener)
1
The Honourable Mr Justice McCombe
Hearing dates: 16th–20th and 23rd–25th My 2012
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Kimathi and Others v Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...the proceedings was not in any way a contravention of any requirement of the court rules or in breach of any order of the court.” 142 [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB); an application for discretion to be exercised in favour of the Claimants under s33 Limitation Act 1980.S32 was not put in issue by the......
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Mutua v Foreign and Commonwealth Office [England, High Court, Queen's Bench Division]
...EWHC 1913 (QB) and [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB))England, High Court, Queen's Bench Division(McCombe Mutua and Others and Foreign and Commonwealth Office1 State succession Colonies Independence Kenya Kenya becoming independent in December 1963 Creation of new independent State Responsibility of Uni......
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Kimathi and Others v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...intelligence angle e.g. who was in what gangs and where were these gangs and what were their intentions”. 3 [2011] EWHC 1913 (QB). 4 [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB). 5 Mrs Ngondi, in respect of whom there were special circumstances irrelevant to the TCs in the present case. See Mutua 2 nd paragraphs ......
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Mr Dancan Murithi v AVH Legal LLP (t/a Tandem Law)
...of whom no admissions had been made. The fifth claimant discontinued his claim. (See Mutua v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB) at 9 The FCO thereafter entered into settlement agreements with those three claimants, and a number of other individuals who had not been c......
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LIABILITY FOR ASSISTING TORTS.
...Courtn 5) 1239 [20], quoting Tony Weir, Economic Torts (Clarendon Press, 1997) 32 n 31. (106) Mutua v Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB), (107) Collins v Northern Territory (2007) 161 FCR 549, 561 [28] (French J), cited in Australian Mud Co Pty Ltd v Coretell Pty Ltd [No ......
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A TIME FOR JUST RECKONING? TEMPORALITY, LAW, AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CHANGING SOCIETIES.
...justice have been coming up in Court cases lately in England and Germany. See Ndiki Mutua & 4 Others v. The Commonwealth Office (2012) EWHC 2678 (QB) (the Royal Court of Justice was asked to adjudicate on issues of violence meted out by the British Colonial Office to the indigenous comm......
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Reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and historical enslavement: Linking past atrocities with contemporary victim populations
...edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2015).58. In the UK under the Limitation Act 1980 (UK).59. Mutua & Ors v The Foreign And Commonwealth Office [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB) [158]; Limitations Act 1980 (UK), s33.60. For example JP Morgan Chase in 2005 apologised for its historical involvement in slavery, and a......