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Contracting: Parenting problems
Gwendoline Davies and Malcolm Simpson look at jurisdiction and the liability of parent companies for international subsidiaries ‘In order to proceed with a claim in the UK, the claimants in Lungowe and Okpabi had to establish that the UK parent companies were liable in tort for the acts or omissions of their international subsidiaries.’ The …
Cases Referenced
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- Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] UKHL 2
- Chandler v Cape plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB); [2012] EWCA Civ 525
- Lungowe & ors v Vedanta Resources plc & anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1528
- Okpabi & ors v Royal Dutch Shell plc & anor [2018] EWCA Civ 191
- Owusu v Jackson [2005] EUECJ C-281/02