The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill reached its 3rd reading in the House of Lords in April 2011. CORE called for the Bill to be amended to safeguard access to justice for victims of corporate human rights abuses.
Following a review by Lord Justice Jackson in 2009, the UK government proposed wide-ranging reforms to the costs regime for civil litigation. This briefing note explains the negative consequences of the reforms for human rights court cases against multinational corporations. Download the briefing »
CORE & The London School of Economics (LSE) review examples from Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Georgia and Nigeria, and demonstrate how political, social and economic obstacles leave victims of alleged human rights violations without remedy.
Ten of the key issues, opportunities and discussion points on UK business, human rights and the environment, based on the premise that there is no single silver bullet to improving UK businesses’ human rights and environmental impacts.
CORE is proposing a new body to address the human rights and environmental impacts of UK companies when operating abroad. This briefing explains why and what it could look like.
Simply Put provides an expert analysis of how the current legal framework is failing and what changes need to be made to the existing social and environmental corporate reporting regime.
The aim of this report is to try to identify a way of “filling the gap” between, on the one hand, a series of relatively toothless soft law and self-regulatory initiatives, and, on the other hand, a domestic civil liability system which, though well established, is fraught with difficulty for claimants and is too easily manipulated by companies seeking to avoid liability.
A review of the UK National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
A guide for campaigners to mark the implementation of The Companies Act.
