Pro bono & community action: Cloisters barristers’ valiant Chagos exiles pro bono loss
When the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands sought to bring a compensation claim against the UK Government, barristers from Cloisters chambers took the matter on a pro bono basis. The story begins in the 1960s, when the Government handed the Chagos Islands to the US for use as a military base. The native population was […]