The England and Wales court of appeal passed a landmark ruling yesterday that strengthens overseas third party workers’ protections against international corporations.
The case involves London-based shipping company Maran, which sends its old vessels to be demolished in South Asia.
The practice exploits South Asian countries’ weak regulations while distancing the shipping company from liability, at least until now.
A Bangladeshi woman looking to sue the company for negligence has received a decision that Maran could owe a duty of care. The woman’s husband died on a vessel-demolition site in Bangladesh in twenty eighteen.