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More than 13,000 inhabitants from the Ogale and Bille communities in Nigeria file claims against Shell for tragic oil spills

The group register in the Ogale claim has now been filed and 11,317 Ogale individual claims have been issued at the High Court.  Together with the existing Bille individual claims, overall 13,652 people are bringing individual claims against Shell. Shell has now filed a...

Campesinos wins trial against oil company Amerisur regarding preliminary issues

A group of Colombian farmers have been successful with both arguments put forward in a preliminary issue trial regarding their ongoing case against Amerisur Resources Limited. The Colombian Court ruled today that a multinational parent company is not time-barred from imposing liability on it...

Following allegations in the media against Boris Johnson and Simon Case, a civil servant files a landmark whistleblowing claim

A civil servant who was dismissed after publicly accusing the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson (and those around him) of lying to the public and judging the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case over the handling of allegations relating to Chris Pincher, has launched an employment...

Legal claim investigated on behalf of heat network energy customers

Residents whose home heating and hot water is supplied through a heat network could have grounds for a legal claim, according to law firm Leigh Day. Customers who receive their heating by means of a heat network are not protected by the energy price cap...

Asylum Aid is requesting approval to appeal Rwanda policy judgment

Asylum Aid has applied for permission to appeal the judgment given by the High Court on 19 December 2022 regarding the government’s policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. A hearing to decide permission to appeal and other matters following on from the judgment in...

Asylum Aid considers appeal to Rwanda removals procedure judgment

Asylum Aid, a non-profit international organisation that has legally represented asylum seekers for generations, is considering an appeal following the High Court's decision to rule the Home Office's removal procedure for refugees as legal. The court found that decisions taken in relation to eight...