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RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited ([2009] EWHC 2540 (QB)), also known as Trafigura v Guardian News and Media Limited and the Trafigura case, was a 2009 legal action in which Trafigura attempted to use a super-injunction to prevent the press reporting details of toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast.
Trafigura is the third-largest physical commodities trading group in the world behind Vitol and Glencore. [60] Trafigura sources, stores, blends and transports raw materials including oil, refined petroleum products and non-ferrous metals, iron ore, and coal. [15] [61] It more recently added a third division, focused on gas, [7] power, and ...
On 20 September 2009, both cases were dropped in an out-of-court settlement. Trafigura announced it would pay more than $46 million to claimants, noting that 20 independent experts had examined the case but were "unable to identify a link". [29] [30] The package would be divided into groups of $1,546 which would then be paid to 31,000 people.
Bardi (Emilian: Bàrdi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Bologna and about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Parma, in the upper Ceno valley at the confluence of the rivers Ceno and Noveglia.
In 1556, the second Duke, Ottavio Farnese, was given the city of Piacenza, becoming thus also Duke of Piacenza, and so the state was thereafter known as the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Ducato di Parma e Piacenza). The Farnese family continued to rule until the extinction of their male line in 1731. [1]
The history of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, a former state on the Italian Peninsula whose capital was the city of Parma, begins in 1545 and ends in 1860. The duchy was established due to nepotism practiced by Pope Paul III and was initially governed by the Farnese family , to which the pontiff belonged.
The Citadel of Parma (Italian: Cittadella di Parma) is a pentagonal fortress built in the Emilian city in the last years of the 16th century. [1]The structure was erected at the behest of the Duke of Parma and Piacenza Alessandro Farnese and entrusted to the engineers Giovanni Antonio Stirpio de' Brunelli and Genesio Bresciani with the collaboration of Smeraldo Smeraldi.
Casa Farnese: Caprarola, Roma, Piacenza, Parma (in Italian). Milan: Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza/ Franco Maria Rici. p. 226. ISBN 8821609294. Giandebiaggi, Paolo (2003). Il disegno di un'utopia. Il ruolo del disegno e del rilievo nel progetto di architettura e nelle trasformazioni urbane di Parma tra il XVIII e XIX secolo (in Italian ...