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Negligence: Developments in parent company liability
Harry Sheehan analyses the recent Supreme Court decision of Vedanta ‘A parent company may not only be directly liable for harm caused as a result of flawed policies or systems it has designed, but also by a failure properly to implement and enforce policies or systems it has designed even when they are not flawed.’ …
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- AAA & ors v Unilever plc & anor [2018] EWCA Civ 1532
- Akpan & anor v Royal Dutch Shell & ors (2013) case number C/09/337050
- Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] UKHL 2
- Chandler v Cape plc [2012] EWCA Civ 525
- Choc v Hudbay Minerals Inc 2013 ONSC 1414 (
- James Hardie Industries plc v White [2018] NZCA 580
- MCA Records Inc & anor v Charly Records Ltd & ors [2001] EWCA Civ 1441
- Okpabi & ors v Royal Dutch Shell plc & anor [2018] EWCA Civ 191
- Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & ors [2013] UKSC 34; [2013] WTLR 1249 SC
- Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation [2002] UKHL 43
- Vedanta Resources plc & anor v Lungowe & ors [2019] UKSC 20
- Watson v British Boxing Board of Control Ltd & anor [2000] EWCA Civ 2116
- Wattleworth v Goodwood Road Racing Co Ltd [2004] EWHC 140 (QB)