ATLEU are holding a training session on Monday 24 September aimed at practitioners who want to help victims of modern slavery to bring a claim against their traffickers.

To register for your free place on this course, email s.poll@atleu.org.uk by Friday 14 September 2018.

The new Legal Aid contracts start in September so this is a great opportunity for firms with matter starts to find out more about how to carry out this important work.

The course will cover:

Tips on securing legal aid
Taking the client’s instructions
Choice of forum
Causes of action
Tactics and procedure (using case studies)

By the end of the course you should be able to identify potential complaints that can be raised on behalf of a victim of trafficking and advise as to the best forum for pursuing a claim.

Course details

Title: Compensation claims for victims of trafficking
Location: 7 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4BS
Date: Monday 24 September 2018
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Trainers: Juliette Nash and Jamila Duncan-Bosu from the ATLEU with a presentation from James Robottom of 7BR.

The trainers

Juliette Nash is a founding member of ATLEU, with extensive advocacy experience, whose practice includes all areas of employment law. In 2009 she was appointed as a fee paid employment judge and she now also sits as a fee paid judge in the First Tier Immigration Tribunal.

Jamila Duncan-Bosu is a founding member of ATLEU where she specialises in making representing victims of trafficking to bring claims against their traffickers in the High Court and the employment tribunal. She has particular experience in securing legal aid for victims who have been refused public funding to pursue compensation claims.