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Public participation and costs – The Administrative (High) Court found it necessary to take a different approach to the general rule that costs follow the event in line with the Sullivan Report (…
Costs – The leading Court of Appeal case concerning the granting of Protective Costs Orders (PCOs), in which a claimant seeks to limit his or her exposure to the defendant's legal costs. The Court…
The High Court accepted that the criterion established for the granting of Protective Costs Orders (PCOs) in the Corner House case must in environmental cases be applied flexibly and in the light of…
Public participation and omissions by public authorities (Art. 6, 7, 8 and 9) – The obligation to create a National Council of the Environment for public participation according to Italian law is not…
Access to environmental information for professional associations.
Environmental information and public participation - The right to live in favourable environment; access to justice granted to individuals before the Constitutional Court contesting the violation of…
Review procedure and costs (art. 2, 6 and 9) – The ECJ found that the EIA for a private road development damaging a coastal wetland was in compliance with EU Directive 85/337/EEC. However, on the…
Costs – The Court of Appeal endorsed the flexible approach adopted in the cases of Compton and Buglife and considered that, in principle,there would be no barrier to the granting of a Protective Cost…
Local residents and NGOs dealing with environmental issues are anxious about the prospect of felling dozen of thousands trees at Shahumyan district of Kapan city, regional center of the RoA Syunik…
Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, adopted at the 1992 Rio Summit, promotes access to information, public participation, and access to justice in environmental matters. Principle 10 is gaining…
