Agbara and Ors v The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd and Ors 2019 EWHC 3340 Approved Judgment - 05 December 2019
Country
Year
2019
Summary
The application
1. This is an application by the Defendants, whom I shall refer to compendiously as "Shell", to set aside the registration of a judgment of the Federal Court of Nigeria dated 14 June 2010 by which the Claimants were awarded 15,407,777,246 Naira in damages in respect of the pollution of land occupied by them following the rupture of a pipeline maintained by Shell in 1969 or 1970 ("the judgment"). Before the addition of any interest, the judgment has a value at today's exchange rate of approximately £33m.
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