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3 May 2023, 10:50 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
A Critical Review of International Law’s ‘Greening’ Agenda Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, Greening the Law of Environmental Protection in Armed Conflicts Merle Kooijman, From Anthropos to Oikos in International Criminal Law: A Critical-Theoretical Exploration of Ecocide as an ‘Ecocentric’ Amendment to the Rome Statute Jason Rudall, Greening International Investment Agreements Aniruddha Rajput, Climate Justice and The Greening of Investment Arbitration … [read post]
19 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
In a potentially precedent-setting case, 11 directors of global energy company Shell Plc (formerly Royal Dutch Shell Plc) [1] are being sued in their personal capacity over the company’s energy transition strategy. [read post]
They seek to sue the Royal Dutch Shell Company claiming that the parent company has a duty of care to the residents of these communities despite differences in location. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 1:47 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The directors’ and officers’ liability environment is always changing, but 2022 was a particularly eventful year, with important consequences for the D&O insurance marketplace. [read post]
11 Dec 2022, 5:40 am by Kevin LaCroix
Royal Dutch Shell plc, in which the Shell group was ordered to reduce its global annual volume of CO2 emissions by 45% by the end of 2030. [read post]
18 Jul 2022, 2:46 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Recent English case against Shell’s Board of Directors In March 2022, ClientEarth, an environmental law charity which holds shares in the publicly-listed oil and gas company, Shell plc, announced that it had engaged in pre-action legal correspondence with Shell’s board of directors. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 1:52 am by Jan von Hein
Kieninger: Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law The recent Shell ruling by the District Court of The Hague raises the question whether Carbon Majors could also be sued outside the state of their corporate home and which law would be applicable to claims for damages or injunctive relief. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 12:00 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Royal Dutch Shell plc in May 2021, the Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030 in response to an action filed by 17,000 Dutch citizens who said Shell’s investment in fossil fuels would threaten their human rights. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 8:49 am by Shannon O'Hare
ARGENTINA On 12 September 2021, President Alberto Fernández’s Justicialist party suffered  significant losses in Argentina’s midterm primaries. [read post]
10 Aug 2021, 3:42 am by CMS
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that there was a real issue to be tried against Royal Dutch Shell Plc (“RDS”) as it was at least arguable that RDS, incorporated in London, owed a duty of care in negligence to claimants based in Nigeria with respect to the activities of its local subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (“SPDC”). [read post]
22 Jul 2021, 6:01 am
The recent decision of a Dutch court in Milieudefensie and Ors. v Royal Dutch Shell plc reinforces the expansion of tort law to climate change issues. [read post]
22 Jul 2021, 3:30 am by John Jenkins
Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit against BP plc, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, and others. [read post]
26 May 2021, 4:09 pm by Xandra Kramer
To be precise, they institute proceedings against the Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary – Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd and against the British-Dutch Shell parent companies – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (UK), with office in The Hague; Shell Petroleum N.V. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 8:21 am by Chukwuma Okoli
In a landmark decision in the case of Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Another, the United Kingdom Supreme Court (“UKSC”) ruled on a jurisdictional issue on whether the claimants/appellants have an arguable case that the defendants/respondents – Royal Dutch Shell (an English domiciled company) – owed them a common law duty of care so as properly to found jurisdiction against a foreign subsidiary… [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:30 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (‘RDS’) is the parent company of the Shell group of companies, incorporated in the UK. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 1:00 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
The first is Okpabi and Ors v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Anor. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 1:00 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding: Keefe (by his litigation friend Eyton) v Hoteles Pinero Canarias SL, heard 7 Mar 2017 Arcadia Petroleum Ltd & Ors v Bosworth & Anor, heard 10-11 Apr 2017 In the matter of an application by Anthony McIntyre for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland), heard 24 October 2019 In the matter of XY (AP) (Scotland), heard 13- 14 November 2019 R v Hilton (Northern Ireland), heard 2 December 2019 MacDonald & Anor v Cambroe Estates Ltd… [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 1:00 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding: Keefe (by his litigation friend Eyton) v Hoteles Pinero Canarias SL, heard 7 Mar 2017 Arcadia Petroleum Ltd & Ors v Bosworth & Anor, heard 10-11 Apr 2017 In the matter of an application by Anthony McIntyre for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland), heard 24 October 2019 In the matter of XY (AP) (Scotland), heard 13- 14 November 2019 R v Hilton (Northern Ireland), heard 2 December 2019 MacDonald & Anor v Cambroe Estates Ltd… [read post]