CBA wades into Chevron’s environmental legal battle – The Globe and Mail
Sept 29 2014
The Canadian Bar Association is under fire from members of the environmental and aboriginal bar over its decision to intervene in a Supreme Court of Canada case in which Ecuadorean aboriginal people are seeking to enforce a $9.5-billion (U.S.) judgment against Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Amazon.
At a hearing Monday, the CBA national board upheld a decision taken this summer to submit a brief to the Supreme Court in the high-profile Chevron case, which has created a legal furor in North America with a U.S. judge declaring the Ecuadorean decision was won by “corrupt means.”
In an e-mailed statement The Globe and Mail received Monday, the association said there are “foundational issues of corporate law” at stake, including the enforceability of foreign judgments in Canada and the nature of liability between parent companies and their subsidiaries.
