Sentences with phrase «environmental judicial review»

While Jackson LJ's initial findings note that «at this stage of the report I am concerned with judicial review claims generally, rather than any sub-category of such claims», the report also notes the «strong case for saying that non-environmental judicial review claims should be treated in the same way as environmental judicial review claims»

Between 2013 and February 2017, if you, an individual, had an environmental judicial review, then you could pretty much guarantee that your liability to the other side's costs would be capped at # 5,000 (# 10,000 for companies) if you lost, and your recovery of your own costs would be limited to # 35,000 if you won.

It is an environmental judicial review or statutory appeal to which the convention applies and to which we are signed up and this was devised to see that the public has access to proceedings which challenge public authorities and that these proceedings are «not prohibitively expensive.»

We also represent clients in challenging decisions of regulators and policy makers through environmental judicial review.

Not exact matches

Jan. 17, 2014: First of 10 applications filed in Federal Court and the Federal Appeal Court by environmental and First Nations groups seeking judicial review of panel recommendation to approve project.

Similarly, actions undertaken by Environmental Protection Agency that survive judicial review are very hard to change on a whim.»

We have represented many education institutions for many years in a vast variety of civil litigation matters, including contract disputes, construction disputes, building envelope and environmental separation concerns, maintenance of capital structures, labour issues, defamation, judicial review, and providing defence to educators.

Where the matter was a judicial review that engaged environmental issues, CPR 45.41 provided the claimant with the mechanism to secure a protective costs order.

Counsel for a coalition of Alberta First Nations participating in the environmental assessment of a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Peace River and associated judicial review proceedings.

Simon advises on operational compliance, regulatory investigations, enforcement and criminal defence, regulatory appeals, tribunal hearings, judicial review and environmental civil claims.

Cathy has represented clients in various proceedings, including a provincial inquest into an in - custody death, judicial review proceedings, and environmental assessment and review hearings.

The same reasoning can be found in the action brought by the Prophet River and West Moberly First Nations in a concurrent judicial review to the Federal Court of the decision of the Governor in Council under the Canada Environmental Assessment Act, 2012: Prophet River First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1030.

The decision is important for examining the level of deference by the judiciary in applying judicial review where matters extend into public policy relating to the precautionary principle in environmental law.

CrowdJustice has been used by claimants to fundraise for judicial reviews, inquests, employment and environmental claims.

Covers a range of environmental issues arising in farming and fisheries contexts such as the application of the precautionary principle to the ecosystem of the mid-Atlantic ridge but is also involved in judicial review of EU directives in the field of the environment.

He advises on the promotion of land through the development / neighbourhood plan process, legal challenges / judicial review, compulsory purchase and highway law, village greens, environmental issues and the negotiation of planning / highway agreements.

Last week's post concerned the judicial review costs system in environmental cases and its compliance with the prohibitively expensive rule Art. 9 (4) of the Aarhus Convention.

James also spent eighteen months» part - time secondment in - house with the Natural England Legal team, which included advising on large - scale renewable energy projects, large - scale infrastructure projects, a judicial review and environmental site designations.

Andrew has particular expertise in claims for judicial review and statutory appeals in the fields of human rights, local government law, education law, health and community care law, environmental and planning law and regulatory law.

It seeks a judicial review of changes made under the previous Harper government to the Fisheries Act, the Species at Risk Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

The dispute resolution practice group has particular expertise in regulatory and judicial proceedings related to environmental law, including compilation of, representations, appeals and reviews related to the grant of environmental authorisations under the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 and the National Environmental Managemeenvironmental law, including compilation of, representations, appeals and reviews related to the grant of environmental authorisations under the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 and the National Environmental Managemeenvironmental authorisations under the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 and the National Environmental ManagemeEnvironmental Management Act, 1998.

It regularly handles high - value, complex commercial litigation and arbitration, often with a cross-border element, and has particular experience in judicial review, professional negligence, commercial fraud, procurement, IP, IT, defamation, and environmental cases

His particular expertise covers health, safety and environmental (including nuisance, noise abatement, pollution, permit appeals and environmental warranty and civil claims), judicial review, corporate defence (including bribery and corruption, investigations and corporate manslaughter), inquest law, food hygiene and safety, transport law, including public inquiries in front of traffic commissioners, product safety, liability and recall, and he is a solicitor - advocate.

The City Law School has announced a new partnership agreement with the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) focusing on a range of projects including climate change, planning enquiries, judicial review, policy development and pollution.

But the Enbridge cases remind us that we also need a legislative scheme that ensures that Canadians have the ability to resort to the courts to seek judicial review of environmental assessment outcomes as a safeguard to ensure that statutory and constitutional requirements are being met.

In particular, the FCA reasoned that because the outcome of the environmental assessment and regulatory review (the report of the Joint Review Panel in this case) was merely a recommendation to Cabinet under the new legislative scheme, «no decisions about legal or practical interests had been made» and thus no application for judicial review lay from the rreview (the report of the Joint Review Panel in this case) was merely a recommendation to Cabinet under the new legislative scheme, «no decisions about legal or practical interests had been made» and thus no application for judicial review lay from the rReview Panel in this case) was merely a recommendation to Cabinet under the new legislative scheme, «no decisions about legal or practical interests had been made» and thus no application for judicial review lay from the rreview lay from the report.

First, there are few lawyers who are genuinely specialists in both substantive areas of law (such as environmental law, planning law, prison law and so on) and the general principles of judicial review of administrative action.