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Environment 2024 cases round up

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Published on: 19 December 2024

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Environment analysis: This News Analysis considers some of the key cases from 2024 for environment lawyers including: R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2024] EWHC 2707 (Admin); Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v Switzerland (App. No. 53600/20), [2024] ECHR 304; Milieudefensie et al v Royal Dutch Shell plc., Hague Court of Appeal, 12 November, Case No. 200.302.332/01; R (on the application of Rights Community Action Ltd) v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [2024] EWHC 1693 (Admin); GDFC Assets Ltd v Heaney [2024] UKUT 345 (AAC); R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20; Friends of the Earth Ltd v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; South Lakeland Action on Climate Change - Towards Transition v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [2024] EWHC 2349 (Admin), [2024] All ER (D) 35 (Sep); R v...

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