On March 19, 2021, the Federal Court of Australia found in the Sanda v PTTEP Australasia class action case representing over 15 000 Indonesian seaweed farmers, that the oil company breached its duty of care owed to them when suspending and operating an oil well which consequently led to an oil spill in 2009 impacting farmers’ livelihood.
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UK shipping company may owe a duty of care to shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh
On March 10, 2021, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found in the Begun v Maran case that the claim for damages brought by the widow of a shipbreaking worker killed while working on an oil tanker in a shipyard in Bangladesh against shipping company Maran was not bound to fail as Maran UK may had owed a duty of care to the deceased worker. Considering that most oil tankers are broken up in Bangladesh, this may have important consequences across the shipping industry.
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