Environmental – International & Travel Law Blog

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…

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