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56 Cases found

ClientEarth v Board of Directors of Shell

At issue: Holding the Board of Directors of Shell Liable under the UK Companies Act s.172 and 174. ClientEarth UK are arguing that the board has not implemented a climate strategy that is in keeping with the Paris Agreement goal.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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R (oao Friends of the Earth) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

At issue: Whether the SoS’s adoption of the Net Zero Strategy did not discharge his duties under the Climate Change Act 2008, and whether the adoption of the Heat and Buildings Strategy has meant that the SoS has breached the Equality Act 2010 (FoE’s Claim). Whether the SoS’s adoption of the Net Zero Strategy did not discharge his duties under the Climate Change Act 2008, and whether these duties had been interpreted compatibly with human rights obligations (ClientEarth’s and the Good Law Project’s claims).
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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R. v Brown (Extinction Rebellion protest, London City Airport)

At issue: Whether choosing to prosecute an XR protester for the offense of public nuisance was an abuse of process where alternative statutory offenses were available.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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R (Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group & Others) v. Surrey County Council (& Others)

At issue: Whether the UK regulations require EIAs for fossil fuel production to assess the scope 3/ end-use GHG emissions arising from these developments.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Ewan McGaughey et al v. Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited

At issue: Whether the investments in fossil fuels by a large pension fund in the UK breach the directors’ fiduciary duties and duties towards contributors of the pension fund.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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West Cumbria Mining v. Cumbria County Council

At issue: Whether Cumbria County Council acted lawfully in referring a decision on a planning application for a new coal mine to committee for a fourth time
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Bennett v. Cumbria County Council

At issue: Whether the grant of permission for a new coal mine by Cumbria County Council was lawful
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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R (oao Cox & Others) v Oil and Gas Authority & Others (“Paid to Pollute case”)

At issue: Whether the UK Oil and Gas Authority's new strategy is unlawful
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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R v. Bramwell et al (“The Shell Six case”)

At issue: Whether extinction rebellion protestors who caused damage to Shell's headquarters to protest the environmental damage caused by the company should be convicted of criminal damage.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Crown Courts
        • Southwark Criminal Court
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Plan B Earth and Others v. Prime Minister

At issue: Whether the UK government violated human rights by failing to uphold Paris Agreement commitments.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Friends of the Earth v. UK Export Finance

At issue: Whether the UK government's decision - that its financing of a liquified natural gas project in Mozambique aligned with its climate commitments - breached public law duties.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • Court of Appeal
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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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 suspended and reviewed in light of new, more ambitious climate targets
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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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
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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
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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
      • High Court of Justice
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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
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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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
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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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
      • Magistrates Court
        • 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
        • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
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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
      • High Court of Justice
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