The United Kingdom has widespread worldwide duties below the Palermo Protocol, the Council of Europe Trafficking conference, and the eu Trafficking Directive, in terms of the non-prosecution and non-punishment of sufferers of trafficking for offences they commit which are linked to their trafficking. The duties are given impact by way of the Crown Prosecution carrier (CPS) discretion now not to prosecute, the abuse of process jurisdiction, the not unusual law defence of duress, and the statutory defences under s 45 contemporary Slavery Act 2015. In rela- tion to adult sufferers of trafficking, in each case the question arises of whether they had been com- pelled to devote the offence with which they're charged. this newsletter indicates how the English & Welsh courts and the CPS have had insufficient regard to the UK’s global duties in interpreting ‘compulsion’, and that improvements are essential to prevent breaches of the UK’s duties and the re-traumatisation of victims of trafficking.