Overview

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, the text draws on domestic, European, and international frameworks. The codification of slavery, forced labour, servitude, and trafficking is analysed in depth, with clear explanations of how recent 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 the evolving International Criminal Court jurisprudence. The Third Edition features expanded coverage with new chapters on supply chain accountability, transnational corporate remedies, and trauma-informed practice. 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.

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Author:   Philippa Southwell (Southwell & Partners, UK) ,  Michelle Brewer (Upper Tribunal) ,  Ben Douglas-Jones KC (5 Paper Buildings, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Professional
Edition:   3rd edition
ISBN:  

9781526529145

ISBN 10:   1526529149
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of 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

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Philippa Southwell is Managing Director of Southwell & Partners, a leading law firm specialising in human rights, criminal, modern slavery and regulatory law. She is an award-winning and internationally recognised lawyer in the field of modern slavery law, who has been highly commended by the Law Society for her work and is recognised as the leading lawyer in this field. Michelle Brewer is a full-time Tribunal Judge (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) prior to which she was a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, and was part of the public law, immigration, and civil teams.Michelle has trained the judiciary, police, local authorities, lawyers, and NGOs on the domestic, regional and international law of human trafficking and modern slavery both when in practice and as a judge. Ben Douglas-Jones KC is a barrister at 5 Paper Buildings in London. He is also an attorney-at-law in Grenada, with rights of audience in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and a Recorder of the Crown Court. He specialises in human rights, appeals, complex fraud, serious crime and regulatory law. Ben co-wrote the CPS Guidance on charging and prosecuting victims of human trafficking, the Law Society Guidance on trafficking and refugee defences and Judicial College Guidance on trafficking.

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