Slavery

Two hundred staff have been recruited by the Home Office to clear a backlog of 23,300 modern slavery cases. UK safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, said that the department intended to end uncertainty for victims by completing cases within two years.

The UK is "required by history and law" to pay trillions of pounds in reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery, a senior judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said. Judge Patrick Robinson, who was president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Irene Mosota has been nominated to chair the new Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Implementation Group, which will take forward the 10 recommendations of the review group led by Sir Geoff Palmer OBE. Edinburgh councillors will consider a report recommending her nomination at a meeting

A £1.8 million fund for children's education in Aberdeenshire and Moray is on the brink of “collapse” after the WS Society cut links to it over its connection to the Atlantic slave trade. Robert Pirrie, chief executive of the WS Society, confirmed that it would no longer be appoint

Edinburgh should publicly acknowledge the city's role in sustaining slavery and colonialism and issue an apology to those places and people who suffered, the independent Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review has recommended. The findings and recommendations of the review, commissioned in 2

A new national museum is to honour Joseph Knight, the enslaved man who won a landmark legal case in 1778 at the Court of Session. Knight, who was enslaved in Africa and taken to Jamaica, brought a case to the Justice of the Peace Court in Perth in 1774 in an attempt to leave the employment of John W

UK measures to avoid complicity in forced labour in China must be extended, human rights campaigners have said. Responding to the announcement from the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab that companies will have to meet requirements showing their supply chains are free from forced labour in the Xinjiang

The City of Edinburgh Council has appointed Sir Geoff Palmer OBE to lead the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group. The group will review features such as statues and street names in Edinburgh which commemorate those with close links to slavery. Sir Geoff, a professor emeritus in the

Slavery’s legacy in the Highlands and Islands is to be examined this week in a programme on BBC Alba.

The Tumbling Lassie Seminar is branching out on its own, after three years as an adjunct to the annual Charity Ball. Having its own place in the calendar, the 2019 seminar will be extended to a full day event and the date to note is Saturday, 27 April.

Professor John Cairns has given the first of the Alan Watson Memorial Lectures, entitled "Slavery and the Law in Eighteenth Century Scotland."