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Hi John,

Last week, about 220 miles apart, Global Justice Now activists in London and constituents of Sir Geoffrey Cox MP in Devon joined forces in coordinated actions. 

Twin protests called out the MP’s role as lawyer for foreign investors suing the UK in a corporate court, over the cancellation of the Cumbria coal mine.

In Devon, constituents are outraged about their MP acting in the interests of fossil capital rather than their own in a liveable planet. They staged a mock trial cross-examining Cox on his lucrative second job demanding payouts at the expense of his own government’s climate action.(1) 

Global Justice Youth activists’ creative stunt engaged passersby outside Cox’s law firm’s offices, raising the alarm about the City of London’s role providing the legal scaffolding of the toxic regime of corporate courts. 

While scandalously aided by a British MP, the investors behind the Cumbria mine can sue the UK government because of ISDS – investor-state dispute settlement provisions – lurking in our trade deals. With the UK facing this challenge to its climate action, can you join thousands of people telling the government it must call time on corporate courts? 
Tell the government: time to scrap ISDS
London
Devon
The UK now has multiple motives to finally act. It was recently hit by a second ISDS case, this time by a sanctioned Russian oligarch. If protecting our climate action wasn’t enough, corporate courts are now interfering in questions of war and peace.  
 
The same billionaire, Mikhail Fridman, is also suing Luxembourg over the freezing of his assets – for a whopping $16bn, half its annual revenue. And elite interests are again entangled: among the lawyers representing him in this case is Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister. (2) 
 
It’s time we untangle the UK’s capacity to act in the public interest from this special privilege gifted to big corporations, and the bloated moneymaking industry of corporate lawyers built around it. It’s as simple as writing it out of our trade deals. 
 
Thank you for adding your voice to those of our activists in Devon and London raising the alarm. It is only through many thousands of us standing together that we can push this little-known scandal up the political agenda. 
Add your name
In solidarity, 
Cleodie Rickard,  
Trade campaigner at Global Justice Now 

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