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    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
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    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The double liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
  • THE LAWExpand
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
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    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • Does the money even work?
    • What would actually be fair?
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  • The legal case that doesn’t exist
  • State succession and continuity doctrine
  • The legality principle
  • Jurisdiction: no court can hear this
  • Limitation periods
  • The 1833 compensation payment
    • What was paid and to whom
    • The moral injustice of compensating owners not enslaved people
    • The argument that the state has already closed its accounts with the institution
The legal case that doesn’t exist

The argument that the state has already closed its accounts with the institution

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  • HISTORY
    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
  • WHO PAYS?
    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The double liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
  • THE LAW
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
  • CARICOM
    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • Does the money even work?
    • What would actually be fair?
  • SOURCES
    • Sources and further reading