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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
    • Slavery was lawful at the time: what that means legally
    • Retrospective criminalisation and why it cannot generate liability
    • Why this is not a defence of slavery
  • Jurisdiction: no court can hear this
  • Limitation periods
  • The 1833 compensation payment
The legal case that doesn’t exist

Retrospective criminalisation and why it cannot generate liability

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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