Podcast: Illinois Tool Works Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
The applicability of U.S. labor and employment laws to U.S. citizens working outside of the country can be complicated. In general, if the citizen works for a U.S. company outside of the country, they enjoy the same legal...more
Since 2015, three cases have gradually been making their way through the English appeal courts: Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc; Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell; and AAA & Ors v Unilever. To quote the Court of Appeal in...more
On 10 April 2019, the Supreme Court in Vedanta Resources Plc v Lungowe, determined that a UK-domiciled parent company may owe a duty of care to third parties affected by operations of its foreign subsidiary....more
On 10 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Vedanta Resources PLC and anor. v Lungowe and others [2019] UKSC 20; a long awaited decision on parent company liability and the jurisdiction of English...more
The case of Lungowe and others v Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper Mines Plc has just been before the Supreme Court on the question of whether the courts of England and Wales should hear this overseas claim. In...more
This case is the latest in a line of cases before the English courts about parent company liability, specifically the duty of care owed for activities of their subsidiaries. ...more
The Court of Appeal confirmed that a UK parent company’s duty of care may, in certain circumstances, extend to employees of a subsidiary and it was arguable that such a duty could also be owed to third parties affected by a...more
The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in a landmark case on jurisdiction and parent company liability (Lungowe and Ors. v Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper Mines Plc [2017] EWCA Civ 1528). The judgment...more
Grey marketing, sometimes referred to as “parallel importation”, is the diversion of goods, originally intended for sale only in certain countries, to other countries where they were not intended to be sold. The goods are not...more