Episode 26: Using the law to fight slavery in the UK - a podcast with legal charity Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit

In this episode, ATLEU’s Jamila Duncan-Bosu talks with Blackstone’s Charlotte Kilroy KC about ground-breaking litigation brought by Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU), on behalf of a young Indonesian man on a seasonal worker visa who was left homeless and in serious debt following exploitation on a UK fruit farm. The case argues that the visa scheme lacks the necessary safeguards to protect people from slavery and exploitation.

Jamila also celebrates ten years of ATLEU’s work as the only UK charity dedicated to providing specialist legal representation to survivors of trafficking and slavery and advocating for their rights and justice.

Blackstone Chambers is hosting an event on 20 March 2025, to support ATLEU. The event will feature the charity’s lived experience group ‘the Changemakers’.

Featured on the podcast:

• Charlotte Kilroy KC is expert in a wide range of areas of public law, civil law and human rights law. She has extensive expertise in bringing judicial review challenges to systems and policies, and has been involved in many of the leading cases on procedural fairness, natural justice and access to court.
• Jamila Duncan-Bosu is a founding solicitor of Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU). Jamila leads ATLEU’s compensation legal team and specialises in employment and discrimination law and representing survivors of trafficking and slavery in compensation claims against their trafficker or those who have benefitted from their exploitation.

A full transcript is available here and in the player above.