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30 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
The Boss Can Tell You to Show Up for a Trump Rally The Atlantic – Charlotte Garden | Published: 8/28/2019 When President Trump arrived in Pennsylvania to give a speech about energy policy at a Royal Dutch Shell plant, he had a ready-made audience comprised of workers who, it turns out, were paid to be there. [read post]
9 May 2019, 12:09 am
”Royal Dutch Shell, the joint owner of Brunei’s biggest oil and gas venture responsible for some 90% of the country’s energy sector revenues, recently came under pressure when Eumedion, a Dutch corporate governance group comprised of top Shell shareholders, called on it to press for the improvement of LGBT rights in Brunei. [read post]
1 May 2019, 7:51 am
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC te Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, kantoorhoudend te Den Haag,2. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 7:29 am
Similarly he rejected the submission that there was any general limiting principle that a parent company could never incur a duty of care merely by issuing group-wide policies and guidelines and expecting the subsidiary to comply. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 6:43 am
A similar situation has unfolded around Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 6:43 am
A similar situation has unfolded around Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 4:33 am
These 5 oil behemoths, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell were also co-defendants in a lawsuit filed by the City of New York. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 4:00 am
Friends of the Earth Netherlands is suing Royal Dutch Shell to force it to do more on climate change. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 4:35 pm
In the first and (until the Fortis settlement) highest-profile use of the Dutch procedures, on May 29, 2009, the Amsterdam Court of Appeals approved the $381 Royal Dutch Shell settlement (as discussed here). [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 11:00 pm
Fourth, in the context of applying the ‘necessary or proper party’ gateway, the practical objectives of avoiding two trials on similar facts and events in different parts of the world outweigh the need for the existence of a territorial connection between England and the claim against a foreign subsidiary of the English-domiciled parent company. 4) Unlike in Vedanta, the foreign claimants in Okpabi v Shellfailed to establish jurisdiction of the English courts over claims against… [read post]
2 May 2018, 3:23 pm
Pierre Wack, who was head of Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1970s, studied meditation extensively with teachers in Asia and, later, with the famous 20th-century mystic G.I. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 5:50 am
for claims against its subsidiary – sometimes with success, sometimes not: For example, in Okpabi & Ors v Royal Dutch Shell Plc & Anor, the English High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, by its Technology and Construction Court, decided that it had no international jurisdiction to hear claims in tort against the Nigerian subsidiary (SPDC) of Royal Dutch Shell (RDC) in connection with environmental and health damages due to oil… [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 3:14 pm
Those suits targeted the same five companies named in the one announced today: Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, BP, and Royal Dutch Shell. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 12:20 am
The primary example at the moment is Royal Dutch Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 3:25 am
By Ekaterina Aristova, PhD in Law Candidate, University of Cambridge On 26 January 2017, Mr Justice Fraser, sitting as a judge in the Technology and Construction Court, ruled that a claim against Royal Dutch Shell plc, an English-domiciled parent company (“RDS”), and its Nigerian operating subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (“SPDC”) will not proceed in the English courts. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 4:37 pm
The WCAM was initially used several times for matters tied to the Dutch legal system, but it assumed a truly international scope in two global securities settlements: one involving Royal Dutch Shell (an Anglo-Dutch company) in 2009, and another involving the former Converium Holding AG and its parent (both Swiss companies) in 2012. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 5:00 pm
What is likelier to happen if there are shareholders who purchased shares on the U.S. exchange, is that those investors will pursue their claims in U.S. courts under U.S. law, and all other investors will seek to pursue their own claims under alternative procedures such as the Dutch collective action procedures (as in fact was the case in the Comverium and Royal Dutch Shell investor actions, about which refer here and here). [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 7:43 am
” — Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell “For those wishing to know what’s right with our financial system and how it can go wrong—or what’s wrong with it and how it can be set right, this is the book for you. [read post]
1 May 2016, 3:45 pm
Eight of the nine economic analyses cited by government regulators in their report were produced by authors or organizations with links to the fossil fuel industry — which has been lobbying the federal government on drilling issues in the lead-up to a decision…the fossil fuel industry’s links to the studies underscored concerns about so-called cognitive capture: the growing effort by industries to quietly shape the basic research on which public policies are predicated…In… [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 4:35 pm
In the first and (at least until the recent Fortis settlement) highest-profile use of the Dutch procedures, on May 29, 2009, the Amsterdam Court of Appeals approved the $381 Royal Dutch Shell settlement (as discussed here). [read post]
