Aarhus Convention
(asked on 21st November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the limit on costs recoverable from an individual party in an Aarhus Convention claim.
This question was answered on 28th November 2023
The Government introduced a revised Environmental Costs Protection Regime (ECPR) in 2018, which allows certain environmental claims to be brought without prohibitive expense.
The Government is committed to conducting a review of the ECPR and will publish a call for evidence in due course.