Full Description
This essential guide sets out the core legal and procedural issues for developing principled litigation and compliance strategies in human trafficking and modern slavery cases. Bridging disciplines and jurisdictions, it draws on domestic, European, and international frameworks, warning against siloed approaches and advocating cohesive, lawful decision-making.
The codification of slavery, forced labour, servitude, and trafficking is analysed in depth, with clear explanations of how reforms, including the Modern Slavery Act 2015, Nationality and Borders Act 2022, and Illegal Migration Act 2023, reshape UK law and its relationship with international standards, including evolving ICC jurisprudence. Positive obligations under Article 4 ECHR run throughout, with expert analysis of key developments such as VCL v UK, Begum v SSHD, World Uyghur Congress v NCA and R v Webb & Somerset How.
The Third Edition expands coverage with new chapters on supply chain accountability, transnational corporate remedies, and trauma informed practice. It incorporates novel scholarship and offers practical tools for practitioners and judges managing cases involving victims of exploitation, whether as victims or defendants. Step-by-step guidance includes jury directions, routes to verdict, and identifying victims of trafficking and modern slavery, a frequent point of appellate criticism. Recognised as the practitioner's 'bible', it remains the definitive single-source reference for this complex and evolving field.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Immigration and Nationality Law online service.
Contents
1 Legal Foundations: Defining Slavery, Servitude, Forced or Compulsory Labour, and Human Trafficking
2 Trafficking Operations and Modus Operandi
3 Working with Victims of Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Trauma-Informed Practice for Legal, Public Authorities, and Support Professionals
4 The Operative Duty to Identify Victims of Slavery, Servitude, Forced or Compulsory Labour, and Human Trafficking: The National Referral Mechanism and Art. 4 ECHR
5 Safeguarding in Immigration and Criminal Detention - Children and Adults at Risk
6 The Legal Significance of Age: Assessments, Disputes, and Their Consequences in Immigration, Social Welfare and Criminal Contexts
7 Investigating Trafficking and Exploitation Offences
8 Access to Justice for Victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: Special Measures in Court and Tribunal Proceedings
9 Criminal Offences of Trafficking
10 Criminal Defences Available to Victims of Trafficking
11 Victims of Exploitation- at the police station
12 Criminal Court Process
13 Criminal Appeal Process for Victims of Exploitation who Commit Criminal Acts
14 Trafficking, Slavery, and Extradition - The Current Legal Landscape and Obligations under Art. 4 ECHR
15 Compensation for Victims of Trafficking and Modern Slavery
16 International Protection and Human Rights Claims by Victims of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
17 Human Trafficking, Terrorism and Secret Evidence
18 Prosecuting and Defending in the ICC
19 Tackling Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery in the Global Economy
20 Public Funding for Potential Victims of Exploitation
21 Professional Ethics in Legal Representation of Victims of Trafficking and Modern Slavery
