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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

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Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. a group of citizens submitted a civil law complaint requesting an injunction to stop the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants.

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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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. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

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Review of Afifah Kusumadara, Indonesian Private International Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 288 pp, hb $140

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Spanning 226 pages across six chapters, the book aims to be the leading English-language text on private international law in Indonesia. Indonesia, a civil law country, has legal principles influenced by Dutch traditional private international law, owing to its colonial history.

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5 Certificates to Get Under $500

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Torts, Criminal Law & Procedures The Torts, Criminal Law & Procedures online certificate course is designed for legal professionals to learn more about the issues affecting our society and their legal ramifications. Also, your budget will thank you that this course comes with a price tag under $500.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

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It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.

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Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

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et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Kobe Steel Ltd., Administrative Case: Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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UK Supreme Court in Jalla v Shell: the claim in Bonga spill is time barred

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The crux of the ruling is the type of tort that the Bonga spill represents under Nigerian law, applicable to that case (on applicable law, see Jalla & Anor v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Ltd & Anor [2023] EWHC 424 (TCC), at [348] ff.). The case at hand is an appeal on a part of an earlier rulings.