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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 March 2018
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Peru's Congress voted [La República report, in Spanish] by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three month (More)
Japan court orders Fukushima operator to pay voluntary evacuees
The Kyoto District Court ruled Thursday that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) , which operated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, was liable to voluntary evacuees in the sum of USD $1 million for failing to take adequate measures to p (More)
Germany top court rules nuclear fuel tax illegal
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a tax on nuclear fuel was illegal. The tax, implemented in January 2011, charged nuclear power plants €145 per gram of fissile nuclear fuel loaded in a power plant. The court ruled tha (More)
Japan court finds government and TEPCO liable for Fukushima nuclear disaster
The Maebashi District Court ruled that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) are liable for professional negligence in their security maintenance at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The two parties have been ordered to pay (More)
Germany top court allows damages for closed nuclear plants
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled [judgment, in German; press release, in German] Tuesday that nuclear plants that were closed or scheduled to be closed as a result of a statute passed in 2011 can recover damages. The statute accele (More)
Switzerland votes to keep nuclear power options
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a referendum to phase out the nation's nuclear power program. The referendum failed with 54.2 % of voters agreeing to keep nuclear power programs with only 45.8 % voting to do away with nuclear options. The referendu (More)
UN to start negotiations to ban nuclear weapons
The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to begin negotiations on banning nuclear weapons, despite opposition votes from world leaders including the United States, Russia, and the UK. The vote in the UN disarmament and international security comm (More)
UN court refuses to hear Marshall Islands case over nuclear arms
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday refused to hear a claim by the Marshall Islands that the world's nuclear powers failed to halt the nuclear arms race. The court found that they could not hear the case because they did not hav (More)
Japan court rejects suit seeking to enjoin restart of nuclear reactors
The Fukuoka High Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by citizens of Japan seeking to stop the operation of the only two remaining nuclear reactors in the country. The suit was originally raised by 12 residents in the Kagoshima District Cou (More)
Japan court orders two nuclear reactors closed
The Otsu District Court in Japan ordered an injunction halting the operation of two nuclear reactors Wednesday, days before the fifth anniversary of the Fukuishima nuclear disaster. The Fukuishima disaster , meltdowns triggered by a tsunami, was rate (More)
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