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Breakthrough in Parent Company Liability: Three Shell Defeats, the End of an Era and New Paradigms

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  • van Dam Cees

    (Professor of International Business and Human Rights, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; Professor of European Tort Law, Maastricht University; Visiting Professor King’s College London, where he teaches de Law of Tort (LL.B.) and Business and Human Rights (LL.M.).Netherlands)

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Two English and two Dutch cases have recently clarified the (potential) liability of parent companies vis-à-vis third parties in relation to damage caused by their subsidiaries. They concern the decisions of the UK Supreme Court in Vedanta v Lungowe and Okpabi v Shell, the Hague Court of Appeal in Oguru v Shell and the Hague District Court in Milieudefensie v Shell (climate change case).

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  • van Dam Cees, 2021. "Breakthrough in Parent Company Liability: Three Shell Defeats, the End of an Era and New Paradigms," European Company and Financial Law Review, De Gruyter, vol. 18(5), pages 714-748, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:eucflr:v:18:y:2021:i:5:p:714-748:n:6
    DOI: 10.1515/ecfr-2021-0032
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