Group Actions – Page 2 – International & Travel Law Blog

Lungowe & Ors v Vedanta Resources Plc v Konkola Copper Mines Plc [2017] EWCA Civ 1528: Anchoring defendants, and suing the parent for the sins of their subsidiaries

October 23, 2017 John-Paul Swoboda Group Actions, Service out of Jurisdiction

This blog is by John-Paul Swoboda of 12 King’s Bench Walk. Chandler v Cape [2012] EWCA Civ 525 was described in the Economist as “A little-noticed court case with big implications”[1]. That was because it was the first time a parent company had successfully been sued for, as the Economist put it, the sins of their…

AAA and others v Unilever Plc and Unilever Tea Kenya Ltd [2017] EWHC 371 (QB); international personal injury & justiciability

March 1, 2017 John-Paul Swoboda Group Actions

In this post, Philip Mead of 12 King’s Bench Walk considers the third decision in a series of African cases where complex group action personal injury claims have been sought to be litigated in the English Courts, following Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc [2016] EWHC 975 (TCC) (heard by Coulson J) and Okpabi v Royal…

His Royal Highness Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Lucky Alame v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2017] EWHC 89 (TCC); Jurisdiction and international environmental group actions

February 12, 2017 John-Paul Swoboda Group Actions

This post is by Aliyah Akram of 12 King’s Bench Walk. The case involved 42,500 residents of the Niger Delta, from two different communities, who sought to bring a claim in the High Court for damages arising from environmental pollution caused by, they alleged, oil spills from the Defendants’ pipelines. The claim was brought against…

1 2

This blog is for information purposes only. The blog does not offer legal advice and should not be used as a substitute for proper legal advice. Blog posts reflect the views and opinions of the individual authors and not of chambers as a whole. The editors reserve the right to edit or delete comments without notice. The editors bear no responsibility for any inaccuracies, errors, omissions, and statements in any blog posts or comments.

The International & Travel Law Blog editorial team and 12 King’s Bench Walk marketing team have access to any data submitted to the blog. This is a WordPress website: any information supplied by commentators, contributors, authors, editors and administrators is stored by WordPress. Data required by WordPress to allow for comment on our articles is stored by WordPress and only reviewed by the editors to prevent spam accounts. At any point the data subject can unsubscribe from the International & Travel Law Blog subscription service. An option to unsubscribe is included in every subscription email which automatically unsubscribes that email address. At any point, our editorial team reserve the right to unsubscribe or delete the data subject’s personal data without prior warning. The contact information for the 12 King’s Bench Walk Data Protection Officer may be found on the chambers website.

Category: Group Actions