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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

Jamaica hails King’s decision to refer slavery reparations petition to privy council as ‘really big deal’

Olivia Grange, Jamaica's culture minister, raises a petition document outside Buckingham Palace
Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, has hailed the King’s decision to refer her slavery reparations petition to the privy council. Photograph: Jess Hurd/PA

King Charles has referred a landmark slavery reparations petition from Jamaica to a high-level UK appeals court for legal advice, Jamaica’s culture minister announced in parliament on Tuesday.

Referring to the move as a “really big deal”, Olivia Grange told Jamaica’s MPs the monarch had confirmed that their legal questions have been passed on to the London-based privy council – the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.

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