On April 20, Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TECK.B) released a 76-page first-quarter financial report that reported an $800 million decline in earnings compared with Q1 2019, due in large part to the impact of a global pandemic.

An OECD complaint filed by ClientEarth lawyers alleging oil giant BP misled the public in its advertising campaign would have proceeded had the company not already committed to end the ad campaign.

At least 15 people have been bludgeoned to death with stones and cement blocks, and some bodies partly burned, in an indigenous village in southern Mexico plagued by a dispute over windpower.

Hundreds of people have rallied outside Rio Tinto's Perth headquarters to protest the mining giant's destruction of a significant indigenous site in Western Australia.

There is growing momentum towards mandatory due diligence, both at EU and Member State level. On 29 April 2020, the EU Commissioner for Justice announced that the Commission commits to introducing rules for mandatory corporate environmental and human rights due diligence.

Switzerland’s Attorney General’s Office (OAG) has opened a criminal probe into commodity miner and trader Glencore over allegations it failed to have measures in place to prevent corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Thousands of Nigerians are asking British judges to give them permission to sue Royal Dutch Shell Plc in London over environmental damage caused by oil spills 3,000 miles away in Africa.

The devastating human rights implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic have been thoroughly documented. Civil society has exposed the failure of many governments to protect their citizens and of many businesses to respect human rights in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights.

Trubshaw Cumberlege is proud to announce that Managing Director Sean Kelly took part in an informative panel discussion organised by Invest Africa Connect at Mining Indaba 2020 in Cape Town.

Trubshaw Cumberlege is proud to announce that Sean Cumberlege, a Director at Trubshaw Cumberlege, recently returned from presenting at the 62nd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Squaw Valley, California. Along with his co-author Dimitri Seletsky, Supervising Counsel, Global Legal Services & Support, Chevron Upstream, Sean presented on a paper entitled: Implementing Integrity: the Business Case for an Ethical Supply Chain and a Toolkit for Tempering the Links.