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A landmark anti-slavery case adds suppliers to British firms’ risks

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Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Subscribe to The Economist Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Your browser does not support the element. I n 1791 william wilberforce, a leading abolitionist, predicted that future Britons would “scarce believe” slavery had existed for so long. Yet every year billions of pounds-worth of goods produced with forced labour are thought to enter Britain. British legislation to combat this has not kept pace with more robust laws elsewhere. Asda, Morrisons, Tesco and Waitrose, for example, all sell tomato products that would be barred from America under anti-slavery import controls. Now Britain’s courts are starting to tackle the issue. On February 26th two dozen Nepali and Bangladeshi workers settled a claim against Dyson, a Singaporean-British household-electronics firm, over alleged abuses in Malaysian factories whi

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