Notable Cases

A Compilation of Important Environmental Law Decisions

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2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
2024
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Energy Renewables
Right to ... Health
Sustainable Development
Wildlife Endangered species
2023
South America Guyana
Access to Information
Oil & Gas Offshore oil & gas
2022
Pacific Australia
Climate Change
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
2022
South America Brazil
Climate Change United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights
2021
Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa
Access to Justice
SLAPP Suits Slander/libel/defamation
Decision from the High Court of South Africa (Western Cape Division, Cape Town) asserting that "[c]orporations should not be allowed to weaponise our legal system against the ordinary citizen and activists in order to intimidate and silence them" and recognizing "the SLAPP suit defense."

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