Inequality of Harms, Inequality of Arms - Kiobel v. Shell Comes to an End
Roorda, Lucas
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2022-11-28
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On November 8th 2022 Channa Samkalden, lawyer for Esther Kiobel and three other widows of executed Nigerian community leaders, announced that her clients would be ending their lawsuit against Shell. Uncertainty about the outcome, combined with the fact that the case had already been (unsuccessfully) going on for over 20 years in multiple fora, had made the four widows decide to withdraw the appeal, “not without disappointment and frustration”. In this blog, I discuss this case's remarkable procedural history and why it, set against the particular facts of the case, illustrates the fundamental procedural unfairness between large corporations and victims trying to hold them to account.
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Roorda, Lucas
Kiobel v Shell
multi-national corporations
nigeria
Procedural Justice
Shell
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https://verfassungsblog.de/inequality-of-harms-inequality-of-arms/
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