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31 Oct 2017
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 2017
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 2017
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 2017
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 2017
Once More Unto The Breach…
The ClientEarth litigation on air pollution rolls into a new phase, six years after they first began...
09 May 2017
Fracking And The Precautionary Principle
As public concern over fracking continues, ELF member Emily Shirley reports on a recent legal challe...
21 Mar 2017
Access To Environmental Justice
ELF’s Chair, David Hart QC, considers how the latest changes to the costs rules will affect commun...
08 Mar 2017
ELF 25 years on
Now into its 25th year, an established NGO and a recognisable access point for communities needing h...
22 Feb 2017
Permission refused for challenge to destructive development
On 7th February, I had the opportunity to attend the oral renewal of permission to judicially review...
27 Jan 2017
Aarhus Convention update: Government still ignoring private nuisance claims
In November 2016, the Government responded in rather disappointing terms (here) to a consultation ab...