On 12 February 2021, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the high profile case of Okpabi v Shell, in which it allowed a jurisdictional appeal relating to group claims brought by claimants against a UK domiciled parent...more
2/23/2021
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UK Supreme Court
In its August 6, 2019, judgment in Lomax v Lomax [2019] EWHC 1467, the English Court of Appeal (“CA”) reversed a High Court decision holding that the courts lack the power to compel parties to engage in early neutral...more