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The Tar Sands Project

 

Michael Mansfield QC and Jane Russell are involved in the legal challenge of the global oil and gas companies' sinister exploitation of tar sands, a toxic fuel which is endangering local wildlife and has a dangerous effect on global climate change.

Michael Mansfield QC is involved in the Tar Sands project in three ways:

1) leading a team of barristers from Tooks to help present the case.

Tooks barristers who are part of the Tar Sands team are:-   Grace Brown Jude Bunting James Chegwidden Kamran Choudhry Andrea Chute Tatyana Eatwell Bronwen Jones  Victoria Meades (pupil) James Mehigan Jesse Nicholls (pupil) Maureen Obi-Ezekpazu Catherine Rayner Richard Reynolds Sam Robinson Alexis Slatter Chris Williams Felicity Williams & Rebekah Wilson 

2) leading a team who will do research and writing in England

3) discovering effective ways of raising money in the U.S.

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