Suprema Corte do Reino Unido decide que zambianos podem processar a mineradora Vedanta

Milhares de moradores da Zâmbia podem impugnar judicialmente os tribunais ingleses contra a empresa de mineração Vedanta por suposta poluição na Zâmbia, a mais alta corte do Reino Unido decidida na quarta-feira. O Supremo Tribunal disse ...

Os agricultores da Zâmbia podem levar o Vedanta a tribunal por poluição da água. Quais são as implicações legais?

Gabrielle Holly, da Omnia Strategy LLP, analisa a decisão histórica da Suprema Corte do Reino Unido. Esta manhã, a Suprema Corte proferiu seu julgamento muito antecipado no Vedanta Resources PLC e anor v Lungowe…

Antuzis & Ors x DJ Houghton Catching Services Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 843 (QB) (08 de abril de 2019)

A Suprema Corte decidiu em favor de um grupo de homens lituanos que foram colocados em condições terríveis por uma empresa britânica, capturando galinhas em fazendas de todo o país…

High Court rules chicken catcher bosses exploited workers in modern slavery case

The High Court has ruled in favour of a group of Lithuanian men who were put to work in terrible conditions by a British company, catching chickens at farms all …

The UK Modern Slavery Act: more for the ‘saviours’ than the ‘saved’

“Whose reality counts?” the author and professor of development Robert Chambers once asked. His reflections on participation should be incorporated into all areas of public policy. This past Tuesday the UK …

Gig economy: worker loses Pimlico Plumbers holiday pay claim

A heating engineer who won a claim against Pimlico Plumbers at the supreme court, establishing he was a worker and not self-employed, has lost his bid to claim £74,000 in holiday pay …

“Do Immigrants Trust Trade Unions? A Study of 18 European Countries” (United Kingdom; European Union; United States)

This article examines, via systematic cross-national empirical analysis of migrants’ attitudes in Western Europe, whether unions have been able to gain the trust of migrants, as expressed by the migrants …

UK: “A band aid on a gaping wound: Taylor and modern working practices” – a review article of “Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices”

In a critique of “Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices” by Matthew Taylor (the “Taylor Review”), Phil Taylor focuses on what he believes are some shortcomings of …

UK: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v Crawford [2019] EWCA Civ 269, [2019] WLR(D) 127 (05 March 2019)

This appellate decision, published by the England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (“EWCA”) on Appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), concerned whether employees …

UK: London Underground Ltd v Amissah & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 125 (19 February 2019), Case No: A2/2017/0040

This decision was published by the [England and Wales] Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (“EWCA”) on Appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the United Kingdom (“UKEAT”), based upon the …

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