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Artículo

23 Ago 2004

Autor:
Jon Robins, The Lawyer [UK]

Pay back

Thousands of former Nazi slave labourers began receiving final payments this month from a multibillion dollar German compensation fund after years of legal wrangling...“It is hardly a king’s ransom, and, in terms of the labour itself, it’s more a symbol of accountability,” says Stuart Eizenstat, the lawyer who was deputy secretary of the treasury in Bill Clinton’s administration and special envoy for Holocaust-related issues... Eizenstat believes that one lasting impact is that the legal battle has created “a higher moral standard” for companies. [refers to Lloyd's of London, in context of US slavery reparations lawsuit]