Supply chain accountability: operating in a legal vacuum?
In an article for PLC Magazine, Hayley Lund, Sarah Chaplin, and Rupert Balfe explore the legal and practical implications for practitioners and in-house counsel of Dyson’s recent settlement of certain supply chain liability claims launched against it. It addresses both appropriate forum arguments (i.e. whether England is the proper jurisdiction in which to bring claims arising out of supply chain mismanagement overseas) and the extent to which classic principles of tort law can, or need to be, expanded to cover such scenarios. These topics are likely to receive increasing commentary and court analysis in the coming months and years as the trend of UK companies facing potential liability for the actions of their subsidiaries and operators within their supply chains continues to intensify.
This article first appeared in the June 2026 issue of PLC Magazine (https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Browse/Home/Resources/PLCMagazine).
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