After the settlement, more victims of the torture have come out to lay claim to the billions being paid out, and it’s expected that they will join the pending case by Tandem AVH-Miller and Company Advocates.
“It is on public record that there are considerably more genuine victims of torture and abuse. Tandem AVH are confident that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will fairly consider genuine claims irrespective of which firm acts on their behalf as the interests of justice cannot be served any other way. We await and expect contact from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office forthwith,” Cox opined.
KHRC had claimed it registered at least 50,000 claimants on behalf of Leigh Day and questions have been raised that only 5,000 of them were considered genuine victims.
But since there is the Tandem AVH-Miller and Company Advocates case pending, it is believed authentic claimants will seek to be enlisted in the suit.
The case by Mukami, Nyoro and others was lodged through claim no. HQ13XO2162 Queen’s Bench Division in March 2013.
The claimants argue that they suffered assault, battery, causing personal injury, forced removal from their homes, forced detention, forced labour, torture, and interference with the right to private and family life.
They also complain that they suffered from the right to free assembly, the right not to be discriminated due to race, and had their right to education curtailed through closure of schools and forced removal or detention.
Last week, lawyers acting in the three-pronged cases were summoned to a meeting by the Law Society of Kenya.
The cases include the one Leigh Day that has been settled, the pending one by Tandem AVH-Miller and Company Advocates and another by GT Law Solicitors of UK, which works in Kenya with Rabala and Company Advocates on behalf of 700 claimants.
The precedent set by Thursday’s settlement will likely shape the outcome of other cases.
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