Earlier, I had asked where might suit be filed to get reparations for Caribbean nations? A friend asked if it could be brought in the UN? Financing such mammoth litigation, to one side, which will be formidable, these thoughts have occurred to me today:
No legal jurisdiction at the UN for reparations suits. But its Universal Declaration may be useful. Maybe a suit in equity for mandamus, unjust enrichment, prohibition, and for damages in trespass could be ventured in the human rights violations court (the court that only African dictators have been sued in, or prosecuted in, to my knowledge--whose name I do not recall); or the World Court in Belgium or Holland, but they are guilty too.
Probably it is best to sue in individual countries , make it equitable, ethical, political, religious, financial , pedagogical in scope and in duration . Put each nation on trial in their own courts for damages and in equity! A similar suit could be brought in America in the U. S. Court of Claims, at the same time bills are filed in both houses of Congress.
http://time.com/19528/14-caribbean-nations-sue-former-colonizers-for-slave-trade/
Monday, April 2, 2018
WHERE MIGHT REPARATIONS SUITS BE FILED?
Earlier, I had asked where might suit be filed to get reparations for Caribbean nations? A friend asked if it could be brought in the UN? Financing such mammoth litigation, to one side, which will be formidable, these thoughts have occurred to me today:
No legal jurisdiction at the UN for reparations suits. But its Universal Declaration may be useful. Maybe a suit in equity for mandamus, unjust enrichment, prohibition, and for damages in trespass could be ventured in the human rights violations court (the court that only African dictators have been sued in, or prosecuted in, to my knowledge--whose name I do not recall); or the World Court in Belgium or Holland, but they are guilty too.
Probably it is best to sue in individual countries , make it equitable, ethical, political, religious, financial , pedagogical in scope and in duration . Put each nation on trial in their own courts for damages and in equity! A similar suit could be brought in America in the U. S. Court of Claims, at the same time bills are filed in both houses of Congress.
http://time.com/19528/14-caribbean-nations-sue-former-colonizers-for-slave-trade/