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Maniwa v. Malijiwi, OS JR No. 983 of 2011 (National Court of Justice) (4 July 2014) A group of customary landowners sought judicial review of a Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL) issued by the Minister for Lands and Physical…
Kansol S.A. y Roswell Company S.A. c/ La Ley No. 5194 Que Declara de Interest Social y Expropria a Favor del Institute Paraguayo del Indigena (INDI), Año 2014 No, 797 Paraguay Supreme Court Law 5194/14 (promulgated June 11, 2014) expropriated…
Harken Costa Rican Holdings c/ El Estado de Costa Rica, Sentencia No. 1754-2014 Second Judicial Circuit, San Jose In 1998, Costa Rica granted MKJ Xploration an oil exploration concession encompassing onshore and offshore exploration blocks, and the two parties signed the…
Friends of Lake Turkana Trust v. Attorney General, ELC Suit No. 825 of 2012 (May 19, 2014) Environment and Land Court (Nairobi) Friends of Lake Turkana Trust (FLTT) alleged that the government of Kenya and other state entities (respondents) deprived…
Del. Riverkeeper Network v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm’n, No. 13-1015 (D.C. Cir. 2014) U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit A gas pipeline owner submitted four proposals to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to…
The case note is being prepared (January 2015) The official summary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights may be accessed at this link (Spanish only):
Controversia Constitucional 65/2013 (Actor: Municipo de Chapala, Estado de Jalisco) (February 17, 2014) The mayor of Chapala built a breakwater on Lake Chapala without obtaining a concession from the National Water Commission to use federal water areas. The National Water Act requires natural and legal…
Commission v. United Kingdom, Case C‑530/11 (February 13, 2014) Court of Justice for the European Union In the United Kingdom, courts may issue “protective costs orders” to limit the amount a public authority can recover from a challenger at the…
Company Secretary of ArcelorMittal South Africa v. Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance [2014] ZASCA 184 Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa A citizens group (VEJA) submitted access to information requests to a South African steel manufacturing company (ArcelorMittal) seeking the…
Urgenda Foundation v. The Netherlands [2015] HAZA C/09/00456689 (24 June 2015); aff’d (9 October 2018) (District Court of the Hague, and The Hague Court of Appeal (on appeal)) (affirmed by the Supreme Court, 20 December 2019) Urgenda Foundation and…
