Trafigura at it again….

TRAFIGURA are at it again with Carter-Ruck doing what lawyers do. The BBC has climbed down.  Iain Dale is encouraging bloggers to have a look at this Trafigura newsnight film – and I am happy to look at the film again.  You may be as well?

Tom Harris MP is also scathing..” THE BBC have apparently wet their pants at the prospect of legal firm Carter-Ruck getting annoyed at them over their Newsnight report about James Bond villainesque company, Trafigura. They removed this video so that the big boys wouldn’t steal their dinner money and give them a Chinese burn.”

And Carl Gardner, Author of the Head of legal blog suggests that you might want to look at THIS – and It’s legal to do so.

UPDATE Friday 18th december 2009

Trafigura accepts £25,000 damages from BBC over waste dumping allegations

The Times reports:

The oil-trading company Trafigura accepted £25,000 libel damages and an apology today over a BBC Newsnight claim that its actions had caused deaths, miscarriages, serious injuries and long-term sickness.

The BBC report in May focused on the discharging in August 2006 by Trafigura of gasoline waste in Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast. The waste was subsequently dumped by a local company.

Today Adam Tudor, the solicitor-advocate for the BBC, told Mr Justice Eady in the High Court, in London, that the BBC had withdrawn its allegations.

It acknowledged “that the evidence does not establish that Trafigura’s ‘slops’ [oil waste] caused any deaths, miscarriages or serious or long-term injuries,” he said.