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Shares in Shell fell 1.1 per cent or 18p to 1613p in morning trading. Cook had worked for Shell for 29 years. She lost out on a loyalty bonus of more than £800,000, but her severance pay came to about £5 million, a figure determined by standard company and legal guidelines. [5] Cook joined the board of directors of The Boeing Company in 2003 ...
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) [1] was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. [2] Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, [3] in the Niger Delta, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades ...
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.
Charges included human rights abuses against the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta, summary execution, torture, arbitrary arrest, and wrongful death. After 12 years of Shell petitioning the court not to hear the cases, [1] they were heard 26 May 2009. [2] On June 8, 2009, Shell settled out-of-court with the Saro-Wiwa family for $15.5 million. [2] [3]
Charges included human rights abuses against the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta, summary execution, torture, arbitrary arrest, and wrongful death. After 12 years of Shell petitioning the court not to hear the cases, [43] they were heard 26 May 2009. [44] On June 8, 2009, Shell settled out-of-court with the Saro-Wiwa family for $15.5 million ...
Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U.S. 108 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court found that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act. According to the Court's majority opinion, "it would reach too far to say that mere corporate presence suffices" to displace the ...
In June 2020, Hermer represented the claimants, who were Nigerian citizens who commenced two sets of proceedings against the Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDS) and the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC), [36] in Supreme Court case Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell plc. [37]
Walter van de Vijver (born November 1955) was the head of exploration and production at Royal Dutch Shell. He was dismissed in 2004 following a scandal about the size of the company's reserves. He was dismissed in 2004 following a scandal about the size of the company's reserves.