Resources 'Article 9: Access to Justice'
Legal standing of environmental associations and their local branches.
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…
Costs – The Court of Appeal held that the need for the claimant to have no “private interest in the outcome of case” (one of the “criteria” established in the Corner House case), is not decisive when…
Costs – The first case in which the Court of Appeal expressed concern about the high legal costs incurred by claimants in environmental litigation. The Court remarked that this may be a potent factor…
Costs – The Court of Appeal established guidelines for the level of“reciprocal costs caps” for claimants in relation to the granting of Protective Cost Order (PCO). The Court rejected the notion that…
Several non-governmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the Government and a miningcompany, disputing the legality of an environmental impact assessment to conduct miningactivities in the…
Standing for individuals (art. 2.5, 9.3) - Residents of a municipality are allowed to bring, on behalf of an inactive municipality, an action for cessation of building activities that harms the…
The international expert meeting was held on 19-20 May 2008 in Cologne, Germany. The aim of the meeting was to provide a forum in which interested Governments (including representatives of interested…
Issue 6 of Biosafety Protocol News is a special issue on public awareness and participation regarding living modified organisms. It includes articles by the experts from government, academia, civil…
Guidelines for the development of national legislation on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters were adopted by the Governing Council of the…
