Legal empowerment for local resource control

to hold the parent company responsible for the acts of its subsidiary, the
plaintiffs would have to prove that the parent company played an active role
in the day-to-day management of the subsidiary (see e.g., for the UK, Lubbe v.
Cape). This may not be easy.
From an extra-legal perspective, even assuming that legal aid available in the
home country is able to cover legal costs, very substantial transaction costs
(e.g. relating to contacting lawyers in the home country) and legal awareness
problems severely constrain the feasibility of this legal avenue in most cases.
105