Civil Law Litigating Tort 
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan. Sendai Power Station ). Kobe Steel Ltd.,
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal. Civil law cases.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 30, 2024
Ecological restoration and environmental remediation are some responses to climate change, and thereby this Treaty is likely to impact future climate litigation. This is likely to impact the success rate of litigation claims, since the clearer an obligation is in its scope and nature, the more likely it is that non-compliance is sanctioned.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 26, 2023
On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Under the Civil Procedure Law of China (CPL), the general rule of territorial jurisdiction is that a civil action shall be brought in the People’s Court of the place in which the defendant is domiciled subject to various exceptions grouped together under the title of “special jurisdictions”. [9]
Conflict of Laws
MAY 18, 2023
The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here. Noteworthy is the detail in which the UK Supreme Court discusses the authorities on the tort of nuisance under the heading ‘4.
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