You’re invited to join our webinar on June 28th

A new joint report from the RSPB, the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) and Friends of the Earth, edited by Stephen Tromans KC, considers the impact of the current cost rules on access to environmental justice.

The UK signed the UNECE Convention on Access to Environmental Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the “Aarhus Convention”) in 1998 and ratified it in 2005. The Aarhus Convention links human rights and environmental protection in binding international law for the first time and a key component of the Convention is ensuring that legal challenges on environmental matters are not prohibitively expensive. The new joint report analyses Ministry of Justice data on environmental judicial reviews alongside ELF case studies in considering whether the current costs rules for environmental cases enable, hinder or even prevent the UK from meeting its Aarhus Convention obligations on access to justice.

The report will be launched at an online webinar on Wednesday 28th June at 1pm.

Chaired by Professor Jane Holder, the event will hear from some of the authors of the report: Carol Day (RSPB), Katie de Kauwe (Friends of the Earth) and Emma Montlake (ELF). Presentations will be followed by a question and answer panel session.

We do hope you can join us. It’s free to attend and you can book your place. We look forward to see you on June 28th.