Duty of vigilance : Accounting for information asymmetry in adjusting the burden of proof.

(Droit des affaires et des sociétés) Par Stéphane Brabant Senior Partner and Marie-Charlotte Epaud, Student.. To the attention of parent-companies subjected to the 2017 French law on the corporate duty of vigilance. The recent subpoena of the Casino group in front of the Legal Tribunal (Tribunal Judiciaire) of Saint-Etienne, for which a judicial mediation has just been suggested [1], kicks off corporate Duty of Vigilance court cases set in France. Version française de l'article à retrouver ici. (Lire la suite...)