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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… access the courts system to ensure that both state and private sectors act in compliance with the legal regime on … issue a copy of the lease agreement it had signed with a private developer. This judgement articulated once again the … on the quality of the ecosystem.11 ‘Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts – and paradoxically also …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… to the principles of sustainable development. While each sector has its own legal issues, there are a number of … and enhanced rights of a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to … ment officials entrusted with enforcing laws or protecting private rights under those laws often have more to gain by …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… result of human-cause emissions. The costs to governments, private actors, and communities of dealing with these impacts … for litigants to place the actions of their governments or private entities into an international climate change policy … U.S. cases brought against corporations in the fossil fuel sector. Non-U.S. exceptions include the recent decision in …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… 86 Lgera 143 (1994) 2. Nicholls v Director General of Private National Parks and Wildlife and Others, Land and … there should be no immunity where the wrong done affected private citizens. Legal Framework The Diplomatic Immunities … the public for the purpose of preventing public wrongs. A private individual could not do so on behalf of the public, …