The Aarhus Convention : a guide for UK lawyers / edited by Charles Banner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banner, Charles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998 June 25).

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.

Environmental law--Europe.

Environmental law.

Environmental policy--Europe--Citizen participation.

Environmental policy.

Freedom of information--Europe.

Freedom of information.

Lawyers--Great Britain.

Lawyers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 347 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters - known ubiquitously as the Aarhus Convention - is having an ever increasing influence on domestic and EU environmental law and procedure. Recent years have seen a steady flow of case-law from the UK Courts, CJEU and Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, a raft of civil procedure reforms in response to concerns about whether the costs rules in domestic environmental litigation are compatible with the Convention, and an infraction by the European Commission against the UK alleging various systemic breaches. Even the EU itself has been the subject of a ruling by the Compliance Committee that the CJEU's rules on standing for judicial review of EU legislation are too narrow to comply with the Convention. This book, written by several of the leading experts in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to the implementation of the Convention in each of the UK's jurisdictions, the three pillars of the Convention (access to information, public participation and access to justice) and the mechanisms by which the rights by the Convention can be enforced."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

The implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the UK

The substantive rights

Review of parties' compliance with the Aarhus Convention.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781782254157

1782254153

9781474201100

1474201105

OCLC:

918876339