HRH Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi and Others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judge | Lord Hodge,Lady Black,Lord Briggs,Lord Kitchin,Lord Hamblen |
Judgment Date | 12 February 2021 |
Neutral Citation | [2021] UKSC 3 |
Year | 2021 |
Court | Supreme Court |
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56 cases
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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC v Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty
...21 There has been recent guidance from the Supreme Court on how these issues should be approached — see Okpabi v. Royal Dutch Shell plc [2021] UKSC 3; [2021] 1 WLR 1294 per Lord Hamblen at paragraph 22, where he stated: “Where, as will often be the case where permission for service out of t......
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Hamida Begum (on behalf of MD Khalil Mollah) v Maran (UK) Ltd
...assertions are demonstrably unsupportable: ED & F Man Liquid Products v Patel; Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3, at paragraph 110. The court should also allow for the possibility that further facts may emerge on discovery or at trial: Royal Brompton Hospi......
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Ion Manda v Bird & Lovibond (A Firm)
...assertions are demonstrably unsupportable: ED & F Man Liquid Products Ltd v Patel; Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3, at paragraph 110. The court should also allow for the possibility that further facts may emerge on discovery or at trial: Royal Brompton N......
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Lucy Burnford v Automobile Association Developments Ltd
...assertions are demonstrably unsupportable: ED & F Man Liquid Products v Patel; Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3, at paragraph 110. The court should also allow for the possibility that further facts may emerge on discovery or at trial: Royal Brompton Hospit......
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8 firm's commentaries
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Environment & Climate Change Laws And Regulations 2024
...Court decisions in Vedanta Resources PLC v Lungowe and others [2019] UKSC 20 and Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3, and Município de Mariana v BHP Group (UK) Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 951 (Court of Appeal). 8.3 Can a person who holds shares in a company be held l......
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ESG – are “S” and “G” being overlooked when considering future risk?
...v. Vedanta Resources Plc [2019] UKSC 20 (a negligence claim in relation to mining operations in Zambia) and Okpabi v. Royal Dutch Shell [2021] UKSC 3 (a claim for environmental damage and alleged human rights abuses in connection with an alleged oil leak in Nigeria)). The Court of Appeal ha......
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Group Litigation In Environmental Damage Claims ' Growth And Challenges
...(see for exampleVedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper Mines Plc v Lungowe and Others[2019] UKSC 20 andOkpabi v Royal Dutch Shell[2021] UKSC 3), and (iii) the growth in the third party funding market and the willingness of funders to back such claims, which they see as offering attractive......
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Environmental Claims Against UK Parent Companies: Emerging Trends And The Court Of Appeal Ruling In The Fund'o Dam Class Action
...Division)), Lord Justice Popplewell and Lady Justice Carr. 2 [2019] USKC 20. 3 Vedanta, paragraphs 55-62. 4 Vedanta, paragraphs 63-65. 5 [2021] UKSC 3. 6 Okpabi, paragraphs 29 & 7 In all other types of claims, each individual claimant is required to prove its loss on the balance of probabil......
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10 books & journal articles
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James Hardie and the Development of Parent Company Liability: New Zealand as a Forum for Transnational Human Rights Litigation?
...102 As above at [61]. 103 HRH Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2018] EWCA Civ 191; and Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2021] UKSC 3. 104 HRH Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2018] EWCA Civ 191 at 1. James Hardie and the Development of Parent Company Liability: New Zealand as......
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Developments in Corporate Accountability across the Irish Sea: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2021] UKSC 3
...in Corporate Accountability across the Irish Sea: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2021] UKSC 3 FRANCESCA FARRINGTON* I. Introduction Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc 1 (‘ Okpabi ’) is the most recent instalment in a series of United Kingdom Supreme Court (‘UKSC’) judgments that are changing t......
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Securities and Financial Services Regulation
...(1990) 53 MLR 338 and Mariana Pargendler, “Veil Peeking: The Corporation as a Nexus for Regulation” (2021) 169 U Pa L Rev 717. 48 [2021] UKSC 3. See also Vedanta Resources plc v Lungowe [2019] UKSC 20. Compare the US Supreme Court's approach in United States v Bestfoods 524 US 51 (1998). 49......
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Foreword
...have in the Irish courts. Her case note Developments in Corporate Accountability Across the Irish Sea: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell plc [2021] UKSC 3 deals with the changing landscape of parent company liability and the necessity for such changes in light 5 [1950] 1 IR 142. 6 Hyper Trust Limi......
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