United Kingdom Archives - Climate Change Litigation

56 Cases found

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

Specific instance under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises submitted to the Slovenian and UK National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines

At issue: Social and environmental groups filed complaint against UK company alleging breaches of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises during permitting process for a fracking project in Slovenia.

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines

Slovenia
- National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines

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

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

At issue: Operator challenged UK regulator's decision, under EU ETS, to seek recovery of over-allocated emissions allowances without netting off other allowances to which operator was entitled.

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- First-Tier Tribunal General Regulatory Chamber

Complaint against BP in respect of violations of the OECD Guidelines

At issue: Environmental group filed complaint against BP for allegedly misleading advertising campaign.

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines

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

R v Roberts

At issue: Whether anti-fracking protesters should receive custodial sentences.

Jurisdictions:

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

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

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

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
- England and Wales
  - Court of Appeal

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

Wildland Ltd. and the Welbeck Estates v. Scottish Ministers

At issue: Adequacy of justification for approval of wind farm

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- Scotland
  - Outer House, Court of Session

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

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

R. v. Dosanjh

At issue: Challenging criminal sentence for cheating the EU ETS

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - Court of Appeal

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

R. (on the application of the London Borough of Hillingdon and others) v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Coalition sought judicial review of government plans on airport expansion

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Keiller v. Information Commissioner

At issue: Production of email and attachment that discuss climate change data

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- General Regulatory Chamber on Information Rights

R. (on the application of Tate & Lyle Industries Ltd.) v. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

At issue: Challenge allocation of renewable energy subsidy claiming unfair and discriminatory

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - Court of Appeal