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12 Mar 2024
FOE Complaint That The Brexit Bill May Breach The Aarhus Convention Is Admissible
Last month, the UN-backed Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (‘the Committee’) found admissi...
12 Mar 2024
Coming Soon? An Environmental Rights Centre For Scotland
Dr Ben Christman fills us in on his research in Scotland The history of ‘public interest environme...
31 Oct 2023
Clarifying The New Environmental Costs Rules?
Emma Lui reflects on the recent court challenge to the costs rules in environmental cases. Last mont...
12 Sep 2023
Costs Rules Changes Lead To Alternative Approaches To Access Environmental Justice
ELF’s Emma Montlake considers some immediate effects of the recent costs rules changes ELF is alre...
24 Jul 2023
Training On Environmental Justice For BME Communities
Emma Montlake reflects on a recent ELF training session for university students In June ELF organise...
17 Jul 2023
On First Looking Into The Brexit Bill
David Hart QC takes a look at the Brexit Bill The Great Repeal Bill has shrunk more prosaically into...
14 Jun 2024
Once More Unto The Breach…
The ClientEarth litigation on air pollution rolls into a new phase, six years after they first began...
09 May 2024
Fracking And The Precautionary Principle
As public concern over fracking continues, ELF member Emily Shirley reports on a recent legal challe...
21 Mar 2024
Access To Environmental Justice
ELF’s Chair, David Hart QC, considers how the latest changes to the costs rules will affect commun...
08 Mar 2024
ELF 25 years on
Now into its 25th year, an established NGO and a recognisable access point for communities needing h...