UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP

UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers withdrew planning application from the site near Whitehaven in April, after the High Court found that the planning approval for UK’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years – granted by the previous Conservative administration – had been unlawful.F…

Tory MP raking in millions from tax havens is helping the Cumbria coal mine company sue the government

A Conservative MP who has made millions from legal work in offshore tax havens is helping an investor behind the now abandoned Cumbria coal mine project to sue the UK government in an overseas corporate court. Cumbria coal mine rears its polluting head once more with a corporate court case In September 2024, the UK High Court quashed controversial plans for a new coal mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria. The polluting project would have been the fir…