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46 Cases found

Friends of the Earth v. UK Export Finance

At issue: Whether the UK government's decision to provide financing to a liquid natural gas project in Mozambique violated climate commitments
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport (on National Policy Statement)

At issue: Whether the UK government's national policy statement on road building must be reassessed in light of new, more ambitious climate targets
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport and Highway England Company (on Roads Investment Strategy)

At issue: Whether the UK government's Second Roads Investment Strategy unlawfully fails to consider climate and air pollution impacts
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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Elliott-Smith v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Whether the UK Emissions Trading Scheme sets an improperly high emissions cap and unlawfully excludes incinerator emissions
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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Vince et al. v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Plaintiffs sought review of energy national policy statements in light of UK's new climate commitment and the Paris Agreement.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Planning Court, Queen's Bench Division
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Packham v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Halt railway project on the ground that GHGs had not been adequately considered.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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ClientEarth v. Secretary of State

At issue: Environmental group challenged government's decision to approve natural gas plant.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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Trial of Angela Ditchfield

At issue: Whether climate protester could assert necessity defense to escape liability for vandalism.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Cambridge Magistrates' Court
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Preston New Road Action Group v. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Lancashire County Council, Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd., Cuadrilla Elswick Ltd.

At issue: Claimant argued that the UK government failed require sufficient cumulative impact analysis and should have considered the possible climate effects of any future natural gas production, including negative impacts.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
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R (on the application of McLennan) v. Medway Council

At issue: Whether planning board erred in failing to consider that proposed development would infringe on neighbor's use of solar panels.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Administrative Court, Queen's Bench Division
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R v Roberts

At issue: Whether anti-fracking protesters should receive custodial sentences.
Jurisdictions:
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R v Basto

At issue: Climate protesters found guilty of aggravated trespass for occupying airport runway.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • West London Magistrates Court
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Claire Stephenson v. Secretary of State for Housing and Communities and Local Government

At issue: Claimant sought judicial review of a section of the National Planning Policy Framework that promoted fracking.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
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H.J. Banks & Co. v. Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government

At issue: The legal reasoning required to deny a coal extraction project on the basis of adverse effects from associated greenhouse gas emissions
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Administrative Court, Queen's Bench Division
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Plan B Earth and Others v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Whether an approval to expand Heathrow International Airport is illegal due to inadequate consideration of climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement and advice to change national climate targets
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
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Plan B Earth and Others v. The Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy

At issue: Government’s alleged violation of the Climate Change Act 2008 for failure to revise its 2050 carbon emissions reduction target in light of the Paris Agreement and the latest science
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Administrative Court, Queen's Bench Division
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
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Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change v. Friends of the Earth

At issue: Challenge retrospective aspect of proposed feed-in-tariff rate reduction
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
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R. (on application of Rockware Glass Ltd.) v. Chester City Council

At issue: Challenge to the granting of an IPPC permit
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Administrative Court, Queen's Bench Division
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R. v. Dosanjh

At issue: Challenging criminal sentence for cheating the EU ETS
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
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R. (on the application of Littlewood) v. Bassetlaw DC

At issue: Sought judicial review of local authority's grant of planning permission to a developer.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Administrative Court, Queen's Bench Division
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