| Environmental justice case 'will establish fundamental rights for green groups' |
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21 September 2009 | UK press briefing | EU press briefing | Read the full press release Legal challenges launched against the UK and the EU could break new ground for green groups and citizens seeking standing in courts throughout Europe. ClientEarth will argue cases against both governments before the UN’s Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee on 23 and 24 September. The convention, ratified at both UK and EU level, gives individuals and NGOs rights to access to the courts on environmental matters and requires that cases must not be prohibitively expensive. ClientEarth has set out to prove that both the UK and the EU are in clear breach of their duties to give access to the courts. |
