Nigeria, Sept. 10 -- The UK High Court has ruled that allegations that witnesses who testified for Shell over oil spills in Nigeria sought to mislead the court can be examined ahead of the full trial of a long-running legal battle involving two Niger Delta communities.

The ruling followed a series of hearings in July 2026 concerning claims by the communities that their land in Bille, in Nigeria's Niger Delta, was devastated by oil pollution allegedly caused by Shell.

In a statement issued by Leigh Day, a UK law firm representing the communities, and shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, the firm said the disputed witness evidence was given between 2016 and 2021 during jurisdiction proceedings before the High Court, Court of Appeal and ...