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France: Analysis on first legal cases filed under enforcement mechanism set out in Duty of Vigilance law
With the first cases filed under the French Duty of Vigilance law having reached French courts, Stéphane Brabant and Elsa Savourey from the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills sum up the latest developments, trends, and challenges related to the law's enforcement mechanism in a two-part blog, both linked below.
Further information on the cases is available under the following links:
- Case against Total re climate change (Court seized)
- Case against Total re two oil projects in Uganda (Court seized)
- Case against Teleperformance re its foreign facilities (Notice served)
- Case against EDF re wind farm project in Mexico (Notice served)
- Case against XPO Logistics Europe (Notice served)