“Harrison Jalla and others v (1) Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (2) Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 63. A traditional phrase in the common law, such as ‘continuing nuisance’, may mean a number of things in different contexts, as we will see clearly from this oil spill case. The claimants argued, unsuccessfully, that the presence of oil from the spill which had come onto their land was a continuing nuisance for as long as it remained there – which, they said, should get them around the limitation problems in their claims …” (more)
[David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog, 30 January]
First posted 2021-01-31 06:49:43
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