Regulatory Standards, Corporate Liability

Mining for Gold: Little-Used Regulatory Golden Nuggets That Can Make Life Easier for Shippers, Brokers, and Carriers.

Benesch on 6/13/2025

The transportation and logistics sector has always been one that is heavily regulated, both by pertinent federal agencies and by various state agencies. Although there is now a movement for selected deregulation by DOT, the...more

How Will Changes to Corporate Criminal Liability Impact the Banking Sector

BCLP on 11/6/2023

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act was passed by Parliament on 26 October. The Act makes significant changes to the law of corporate criminal liability....more

Vedanta: UK Supreme Court takes the “straitjacket” off claims against parent companies in the English Courts

Hogan Lovells on 4/11/2019

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 House of Lords’ Report on the Bribery Act 2010: A Glimpse Into the Future of Economic Crime?

WilmerHale on 3/21/2019

On 14 March 2019, the Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Report in which it makes a number of conclusions and recommendations. The Committee was given the task not only of conducting post-legislative...more

Parent company liability – Court of Appeal upholds decision rejecting jurisdiction over claims brought against Unilever by victims...

Hogan Lovells on 7/5/2018

On 4 July 2018, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in AAA & Ors. v Unilever PLC and Unilever Tea Kenya Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 1532, dismissing an appeal by victims of the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya....more

Hogan Lovells leads conversation with roundtable on the French duty of vigilance and corporate civil liability for human rights

Hogan Lovells on 5/23/2018

On 17 May 2018, an unprecedented round table took place to discuss the “French duty of vigilance and civil liability in human rights matters” at our Paris office. ...more

BHR 360: highlights from 2017, and what to watch out for in 2018

Hogan Lovells on 2/21/2018

Welcome to the first edition of BHR 360, our bi-annual Business and Human Rights newsletter. Over the past year the international community has focused its attention on the third pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on...more

Update on the responsibility to respect human rights and parent company liability: what the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Okpabi...

Hogan Lovells on 2/19/2018

In the last four months, the Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in two important cases relating to parent company liability and jurisdiction over extra-territorial human rights impacts. ...more

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