Shell wins Supreme Court fight with landowners over 2011 oil spill

Shell has won a Supreme Court fight in London with landowners after an oil spill off Nigeria more than a decade ago.

Supreme Court justices heard how there had been a six-hour leak from an oil field off the Nigerian coast in December 2011.

Nigerian landowners sued Shell and alleged that oil had migrated to the Atlantic shoreline where it had a "devastating impact."

A High Court judge had ruled that "nuisance alleged" could not "constitute a continuing nuisance."

Court of Appeal judges had dismissed an appeal and Supreme Court justices have rejected another appeal.

Five justices outlined their decision on the latest round of litigation in a ruling published on Wednesday after a Supreme Court hearing in London.