Jamaica says slavery reparations petition to be heard by UK privy council in March 2027

People calling for slavery reparations protest outside the British High Commission in Kingston in 2022. The UK’s privy council will hear Jamaica’s slavery reparations petition next year. Photograph: Ricardo Makyn/AFP/Getty Images

A high-level United Kingdom appeals court has set a date to hear Jamaica’s petition for legal advice on its claim for slavery reparations from the UK, the Jamaican government has said.

Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, confirmed in a statement that a hearing had been provisionally set for the week of 8 March, 2027 by the London-based privy council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.