According to a UN tribunal, the UK government is making it too expensive for campaigners to challenge plans that might cause environmental damage, such as new building developments.
Under the Aarhus convention, the government is obliged to give rights and financial help for citizens to mount legal challenges to cases of environmental damage. However, under the UN convention the government also has a duty to ensure access to justice and, says the UN’s compliance committee, it is failing to ensure that court procedures are not prohibitively expensive.
Source: The Guardian