Da Silva v Brazil Iron. High Court, applying the Court of Appeal’s approach in Limbu v Dyson and with emphasis on the possibility to obtain substantial justice, rejects suggestion of ‘judicial colonialism’, accepts jurisdiction in Brasilian mining pollution case. – Go Health Pro

Da Silva v Brazil Iron. High Court, applying the Court of Appeal’s approach in Limbu v Dyson and with emphasis on the possibility to obtain substantial justice, rejects suggestion of ‘judicial colonialism’, accepts jurisdiction in Brasilian mining pollution case. – Go Health Pro

In my contribution to the EAPIL online seminar discussing Ekatarina Aristova’s excellent Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts (OUP 2024), I flagged the discussion by Dr Aristova in Chapter 6 of the book, of one of the objections to jurisdiction exercised by ‘European’ or by extension courts in the Global North, … Read more

DRC and the legacies of colonialism in Belgium – Go Health Pro

DRC and the legacies of colonialism in Belgium – Go Health Pro

The Democratic Republic of the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Yet as Georgi Verbeeck explains, debates about Belgium’s colonial past remain far from over. Belgium, like its neighbouring countries, has rediscovered its colonial past. While for a long time there was a certain tendency towards nostalgia and at least a repression of the … Read more