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Can I use modern slavery as a defence to a crime?

6 May 20253 Aug 2020

What is modern slavery? An offence of Modern Slavery is committed when someone holds another in slavery or servitude or when another person is made to perform forced or compulsory labour. What does modern slavery involve? The

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