Environmental and human rights campaigners rallied outside the Court of Session yesterday to mark the Scottish government missing a crucial deadline for compliance with the with the UN Aarhus Convention’s access to justice requirements.
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New PEO rules still fall foul of the Aarhus Convention, writes Ben Christman. The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) published an amendment to Scotland’s Protective Expenses Order (PEO) rules on 28 June 2024. This amendment followed repeated criticism of the cost of litigation over th
Time is running out for the Scottish government to meet a UN environmental justice deadline according to scrutiny by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS), which brings to light a "series of failings" in reforming access to justice in Scotland. Scotland has been repeatedly found in bre