facilitation

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Thursday, July 1, 2004 9:34 am -0400 Orin Hargraves <orinkh at CARR.ORG>
wrote:
...
> notes that some individuals have been charged with ìconspiracy to commit
> facilitationî in the recent deaths of some cocklers trapped by the rising
> tide in Morecambe Bay.
>
> (1) What is ìfacilitationî?

It's to do with human trafficking:  'facilitation of unauthorised entry and
residence'.  See:
<http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/aug/9892-00.htm>

The laws seem to be EU rather than UK in origin...

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
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