Resources Keyword 'SDG Target 16.3'
Scotland’s top prosecutor has thrown his weight behind the creation of a specialist environmental court.The Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC said the measure would send a “huge and powerful message…
Authors: Mirna Delalić, Ratko Pilipović, Damir Petrović; This document analyses the national structure and institutional framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina with regards to environmental…
This handbook summarizes the key European legal principles in the area of access to justice. It seeks to raise awareness and improve knowledge of relevant legal standards set by the European Union…
Priorities and activities to be funded
1. Priorities
This call for proposals aims at contributing to achieving the objectives of the European e-Justice Strategy 2014-2018. It will support the…
NGO standing (art. 2, 6 and 9) - National legislation could not limit standing for non-governmental organizations promoting environmental protection to organizations having at least 2000 members.
The Urgenda Foundation (Urgenda) brought this claim against the Netherlands, alleging that it has a legal obligation to take more ambitious measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Urgenda argued…
A major cost reform in environmental litigation has been the recent introduction of CPR 45.41 which introduces a system of protective costs into judicial reviews of decisions, acts and omissions…
In June 2011, after numerous protests by environmental groups, the French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic…
Judgment by the United Kingdom Supreme Court in regards to R (on the application of Edwards and another (Appellant)) v Environment Agency and others (Respondents) (No 2) [2013] UKSC 78 was given on…
The ECHR held unanimously that the right to respect for private and family life (art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) and the right for protection of property (art. 1 of Protocol No. 1…
