Shell Plc lost the latest round of a five-year legal fight with environmental activists over a South African oil-exploration campaign that went all the way to the nation’s top court.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court has blocked Shell-led exploration along the country’s Wild Coast, adding another legal setback to an offshore sector already struggling to keep pace with neighboring Namibia.
After a five-year long legal battle, the Constitutional Court of South Africa has blocked Shell and local partner Impact Africa’s permit to explore for oil and gas off the country’s East Coast, in a landmark victory for local communities and civil society.
On 16 July, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) 28th anniversary, I wrote in these pages about the court’s deepest crisis yet — a crisis to which Europe’s own double standards, and its own governing bodies, contribute significantly.
Sotomayor denied a request by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to put on hold the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in those shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem…
