**This blog analyses the jurisdictional issues in the environmental pollution
and personal injury dispute between Zambian claimants and Vedanta Resources. It was first published on 19th August 2019 for the Leigh Day website** … More Whose jurisdiction is it anyway?
In a fitting show of unity worth highlighting on Africa Day, all but one African country voted with Mauritius at the UN against UK colonisation of the Chagos Islands … More Africa Day: African countries united over decolonisation of the Chagos Islands
The Zambian government has formally filed an application to place KCM, Vedanta’s Zambian subsidiary in liquidation. This latest development in the Vedanta v Lungowe saga may potentially complicate matters as the claimants seek to obtain justice. … More KCM in liquidation: will the claimants in Vedanta v Lungowe have to seek permission of Zambian courts to proceed against KCM?
The Zambian President recently announced that the government was considering nationalising KCM and ‘divorcing’ from Vedanta. This could present practical difficulties in the pursuit of access to justice for the claimants in Vedanta v Lungowe … More Access to justice meets the politics of nationalisation
Today’s judgment is significant insofar as it opens up the possibility of the Zambian claimants accessing justice. However, the claimants still face formidable obstacles in respect of proving breach of duty. Others like them in Zambia will continue to face obstacles to access to justice until the Zambian legal system itself is robust enough to handle such cases.
The ICJ’s flexible approach to the Chagos Archipelago claim took into account the right to self-determination while English courts appear constrained by limitation periods under the Limitation Act 1980. … More Colonial reckoning: ICJ and English courts’ approach to colonial claims
This blog post is reproduced from an article published in the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association journal, the Young Human Rights Lawyer.
(2018) 4YHRL – https://www.hrla.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018-4YHRL-final-version.pdf … More Case comment: Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc [2017] EWCA Civ 1528 and Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2018] EWCA Civ 191
‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’ reads an inscription in the Library of the UK Supreme Court. 1826 Zambians will test these words as the Supreme Court decides whether their claim against Vedanta can be heard in the UK. … More Injustice in Zambia is a threat to justice in the UK
Just. Aware. 