UK: High Court to hear case on London Bullion Market Association's alleged wrongful gold certification
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"London Bullion Market Association drops challenge to groundbreaking human rights claim proceeding in UK Court," 17 June 2024
The claimants, families of two men who were killed at the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania by security forces, allege the LBMA repeatedly wrongly certified gold sourced from the notorious mine as being free from serious human rights abuses.
LBMA made an application to persuade the UK courts to refuse to hear the case by arguing that Tanzania would be a more appropriate place than England for the case to be heard...
...Just five weeks before the hearing, LBMA confirmed it was withdrawing the application.
Now that LBMA has abandoned its jurisdiction challenge, Leigh Day will bring the case in London’s High Court...
The legal case will focus on determining whether a certification body can be held legally responsible for a reportedly flawed certification process which allows gold allegedly tainted by human rights abuses to be traded the London markets, thus contributing to human rights violations...