International corporates are coming under growing pressure from claimants seeking to hold them liable for acts committed overseas, often by subsidiaries or suppliers. Claimant firms in the U.S. and the UK are finding...more
The Court of Appeal recently allowed a group action comprising more than 200,000 victims of an environmental disaster in Brazil to go ahead in the English High Court. The claim was originally dismissed by the High Court for...more
The Court of Appeal returned a ruling on 27 February 2020 that the UK government's policy statement which included the government's approval of the Heathrow expansion was unlawful because it did not consider the impact of the...more
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