Responding to Systemic Risk and Expanding Liability

Keynote address by the Right Honourable Lord Sales to the Planning and Environment Bar Association Annual Conference, London, 9 May 2025.

Climate change and the future of tort law: responding to systemic risk and expanding liability

Speech delivered by Lord Sales, Justice of the UK Supreme Court at the Robin Cooke Lecture, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 December 2024.

What is the rule of law and why does it matter?

On 29 November 2023 Lord Philip Sales – Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 11 January 2019 – spoke on the above topic to the UK Personal Injuries Bar Association. The article addresses the important modern issue of the role of legislation in grounding or obviating the existence of a tortious duty of care, and if grounded then in moulding the content of that duty.

Please see link here.