[2025] EWHC 1931 (KB)

Case No: QB-2022-002405 and others

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE 

OF ENGLAND AND WALES

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

Rolls Building

Fetter Lane

London

EC4A 1NL

Before:

MR JUSTICE CONSTABLE

Between:

VARIOUS CLAIMANTS

Claimants

- and -

MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG AND OTHERS

FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND OTHERS

NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD AND OTHERS

STELLANTIS AUTO SAS AND OTHERS

AND OTHERS

Defendants

- and-

CLIENTEARTH

MUMS FOR LUNGS C.I.C.

THE SCOTTISH NOX EMISSIONS STEERING GROUP

Interested Parties

Tom De La Mare KC, Adam Kramer KC, Gareth Shires and Anna Dannreuther (instructed by Leigh Day and PGMBM Law Ltd) for the Claimants

Richard Blakeley KC, James Purnell, Zahra Al-Rikabi (instructed by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP) for the Mercedes-Benz Group Defendants

Sonia Nolten KC and William Clerk (instructed by McGuire Woods London LLP) for the Ford Defendants

Richard Sage and Frederick Simpson (instructed by Signature Litigation LLP) for the Renault Defendants

Anneli Howard KC and Michael d’Arcy (instructed by Hogan Lovells International LLP) for the Nissan Defendants

James Cutress KC and Christopher Monaghan (instructed by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) for the PCD Defendants

Prashant Popat KC and Lucy McCormick (instructed by Freshfields LLP) for the Volkswagen Defendants

Thomas Fairclough (instructed by Hogan Lovells International LLP) for the BMW Defendants

Tim Buley KC and Barney McCay (instructed by Mishcon de Reya LLP) for Mums for Lungs C.I.C. (‘Mums for Lungs’) and ClientEarth

Andrew Smith KC (instructed by Thompsons Solicitors LLP) for the Scottish NOx Emissions Steering Group

Hearing dates: 7, 8, 9 July 2025

JUDGMENT

This judgment was handed down by the Judge remotely by circulation to the parties'

representatives by email and release to The National Archives. The date and time for

hand-down is deemed to be 10.30 on the 25^TH of July 2025.