Aim
To obtain compensation for harm passed down to descendants from victims of slave raids in Yorubaland for the Transatlantic Slavery..
In this court action, a claim for monetary compensation against the British government, under the 1861 Accessories and Abettors Act, for harm the government caused by aiding and abetting slave raiders and benefiting from their exploits, is brought by descendants of Yoruba people who had been fortunate to evade capture from armed and violent slave raids carried out in Yorubaland for the purposes of the Transatlantic Slavery, in the 400-year period from 16th to 19th century, but who nevertheless witnessed the horrific violence, destruction and desolation, which caused them to experience physiological, psychological and other traumatic harm, but which by being uncompensated and untreated passed down generations to the descendants, the slavery since codified by UNGA as the ‘gravest crime against humanity’,
The slave raids involved armed men committing a) violent kidnappings of millions of people and putting them in chains and other restraints, b) indiscriminate slaughter and maiming of millions of innocent people, and c) wanton destruction of millions of property in farms, homes, villages and towns.
The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act brought compensation for the Transatlantic Slavery under British domestic law. The 2026 UNGA slavery resolution by codifying the specific slavery brought it under customary international law. The essence of this court action is to make Britain account under the law for the part it played in the operation of the Transatlantic Slavery.