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MCS fight for 'people's law on the environment'
Last Thursday, MCS got together with environment lawyers ClientEarth and went to the United Nations in Geneva to plead a case that the UK Government is denying the rights of NGOs and ordinary citizens to bring to court cases about the environment. This is in breach of an international agreement called the Aarhus Convention. We used for an example the Port of Tyne Authority who were given a license to dump 66,000 tonnes of highly toxic harbour spoil into the North Sea - an operation we've been fighting for almost five years.
The Times newspaper on Saturday reported the case as a 'David & Goliath battle'. We won't know the outcome for several months but you can read more about it here:
