High court ruling marks first time a foreign state has been held liable for domestic servitude by its envoy on UK soil
The United Arab Emirates must pay a victim of human trafficking more than £260,000 after being exploited by one of their diplomats in London, the high court has ruled.
Lawyers representing the woman said it was unprecedented for a court to order a foreign state to pay for domestic servitude by a diplomat on UK soil.
The 35-year-old woman of Filipino heritage went to work for Salem Mohammed Sultan Aljaberi, a UAE diplomat, and his family in 2012 when the family was living in UAE.
In February 2013 she was taken to London with them and in what the high court judge Mr Justice Lavender described as a “case of modern slavery”, was locked in their home for 89 days before escaping after the family left the door unlocked.
