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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Landmark ruling: Canadian corporations may be held liable for breaches of international human rights law says the Supreme Court!
On February 28, 2020, the Canadian Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd case, dismissing Nevsun’s motion to strike, considering that “it is not plain and obvious that corporations today enjoy a blanket exclusion under customary international law from direct liability for violations of obligatory, definable, and universal norms of international law”.
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