Mutua & Ors v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2011] EWHC 1913 (QB); [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB)

The two High Court judgments that opened the door to the Mau Mau settlement. Mr Justice McCombe held in 2011 that the claims were arguable, and in 2012 that they were not statute-barred (s.33 Limitation Act 1980 discretion). The cases established the procedural route by which UK courts can hear claims arising from colonial-era administrative conduct decades after the events. Cited here as the legal-architecture precedent for the proposition that a UK domestic-court remedy for late-colonial failure is not theoretical.