The latest episode of Law Pod UK features Guy Mansfield QC, who acted for the government in the Mau Mau action against the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In this group litigation over 40,000 Kenyans alleged abuse during the Kenyan Emergency of the 1950s and early 1960s. The various test cases led to a High Court judgments last year dismissing the claims for being out of time under the Limitation Act 1980.
See Jo Moore’s post for the case citations referred to in the podcast, 1COR news item and the more recent decision in Kimathi & Others [November 2018]. Other limitation cases referred to in the podcast are KR v Bryn Alyn [2003], A v Hoare [2008] and Jones & Ors v DECC [2012].
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