| Autor: |
Enneking, L.F.H., UCALL / Aansprakelijkheid en verantwoordelijkheid, UU LEG LAW Landelijke Onderzoekschool Ius Commune, Afd Privaatrecht |
| Rok vydání: |
2013 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Dovenschmidt Quarterly, 2013(3), 134 |
| ISSN: |
2211-9981 |
| DOI: |
10.5553/dq/221199812013001003003 |
| Popis: |
On 30 January 2013, the The Hague district court rendered a final judgment with respect to a number of civil liability claims against Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) and its Nigerian subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) that had been pursued by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch NGO Milieudefensie in relation to various oil spills from SPDC-operated pipelines in the Nigerian Niger Delta.1 This case, including the January 2013 ruling by the The Hague district court, is interesting for a number of reasons.2 One of them is that it forms part of a broader, worldwide trend towards similar civil liability procedures that has come up over the past two decades in Western societies around the world. Increasingly, transnational civil liability claims are being brought against parent companies of multinational corporations before courts in their Western society home countries in relation to harm caused to people and planet in (mostly developing) host countries as a result of these corporate groups’ local activities there.3 The worldwide trend towards these so-called ‘foreign direct liability cases’ arises against the background of increasingly fierce socio-political debates on international corporate social responsibility and accountability that are taking place in Western societies around the world. In a globalizing world, where corporate activities are less and less confined to the territory of a single state but where an effective regulatory regime for internationally |
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OpenAIRE |
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