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Series Lawyers’ insights on corporate legal accountability: Richard Rogers, Climate Counsel, UK
"The greatest challenge is identifying a legal forum that is willing to accept jurisdiction, but is also independent, impartial, and accessible (especially in terms of costs)."
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Series Lawyers’ insights on corporate legal accountability: Channa Samkalden, Prakken d’Oliveira, Netherlands
"This ruling is about Shell and Nigeria – but it shows that parent company liability is a risk that corporations will need to actively deal with."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Johnny White, ClientEarth, UK
"Climate issues must also be ‘mainstreamed’ into other areas of law, for example: corporate, financial, competition and consumer law. Each of these areas offer opportunities for addressing widening corporate climate accountability gaps."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Ahmed ElSeidi, ElSeidi Law Firm, Egypt
"In Egypt, there is a lack of communication with local or international lawyers who specialize in corporate legal accountability to share lessons learned or arguments which were persuasive in court."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Paul Frestus Mvula, Church and Society Programme, CCAP Synod of Livingstonia, Malawi
"As CSOs and mining communities get involved in litigation, this will build capacity of local communities and CSOs thereby boosting their confidence to face any multinational company."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Gearóid Ó Cuinn, GLAN (Global Legal Action Network)
"It is important to work closely with affected communities to support their pre-existing efforts and work with them to generate impacts beyond the legal sphere."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Krishnendu Mukherjee, Doughty Street Chambers
"Funding and difficulties in obtaining justice through poor legal systems are the biggest challenges I face in my corporate legal accountability work."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Charity Ryerson, Corporate Accountability Lab
"We need a greater diversity of effective, efficient legal mechanisms if victims are to have meaningful access to remedy. "
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Series Many segments of the business and human rights field have been co-opted & captured by corporate actors
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Benjamin Hoffman, Human Rights Clinic of Columbia Law School: "I am very excited about accountability strategies that push beyond litigation…the adoption of worker-driven social responsibility initiatives is demonstrating the transformative potential of human rights initiatives grounded in rights-holder design, monitoring,& enforcement."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Sophorn Sek, Rights & Business Law Office (Cambodia)
"To hold the perpetrator accountable is complicated, especially in human rights, environmental and cultural cases…Support from lawyers, NGOs in documentation for instance is helpful to assist the community to access justice."
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