How UK legal system helps Big Oil evade responsibility

[Rosamma Thomas]

Britain’s courts, tribunal services and legal firms continue to be one of the main networks of infrastructure propping up that fossil fuel industry. To use LegalUK’s language, the English legal system is one of the platforms on which the carbon economy is built. In itself, this is a situation that the British government should - in Guterres’ language - “clamp down on”.  https://theecologist.org/2026/jun/29/legal-catastrophe