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Okpabi v Shell and Lungowe v Vedanta Dispel Three Myths
The jurisprudence on the tort law duty of care has established three myths that Okpabi v Shell and Lungowe v Vedanta dispelled.
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Shell in court, again: a short comparison of the Okpabi and Milieudefensie judgments
With the recent decisions of the UK Supreme Court and the Hague Court of Appeal in Okpabi v. Shell and Milieudefensie v. Shell respectively, common law duties of care on parent companies have gone from a distant hypothetical to a very real possibility
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Does the UK have an international duty to adopt a mandatory due diligence obligation law on business and human rights?
Dr Dalia Palombo asks if the UK has a legal obligation to adopt a law on mandatory human rights due diligence.
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UK General Election 2019: Corporate Accountability Commitments
Political parties contesting the UK General Election recently released manifestos or priorities detailing their policy commitments. We examined what each said on holding businesses accountable for their impacts on human rights and the environment.
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Workers pay the price for rising shareholder profits
For the last few days, the members of the most exclusive club in the world, the G7, have been meeting by the seaside. Supposedly, top of the agenda was fighting inequality - but research concludes that the policies G7 members are pursuing are making it a whole lot worse, writes Alex Maitland of Oxfam.
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Towards mandatory human rights due diligence in the UK
Several political processes currently underway in the UK offer civil society space to push the Government on mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD), writes Marilyn Croser, CORE's Director. This blog was originally published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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Access to Legal Remedies for Victims of Corporate Human Rights Abuses in Third Countries
Claire Bright, Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) write about the obstacles to justice for victims of corporate human rights abuses, and how they might be overcome.
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G20 2017 Declaration: Key points on corporate accountability and labour rights
The G20 has endorsed a set of High Level Principles on the Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption and committed to ensuring that companies benefitting from corruption can be held liable.
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2017 Manifestos: what parties are promising on corporate accountability
In the run up to this year’s general election, the three main UK-wide political parties have now unveiled their manifestos.
There are many commonalities across three, with parties professing a desire to confront labour abuses such as modern slavery, and respond to new labour vulnerabilities driven by the “gig economy” and zero hour contracts. However, there are some notable differences on Brexit, corporate governance and the use of procurement to encourage better practice.