Standing Up for B ritish Lungs: Effective Judicial Enforcement in Environmental Law – R (on the application of C lient E arth) v. Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

• Published in: Review of European, comparative & international environmental law Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 368 - 372
• Main Author: Barritt, Emily
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01-11-2015
• ISSN: 2050-0386; 2050-0394
• DOI: 10.1111/reel.12137

The judgment of the Supreme Court of the
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nited
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ingdom in
R
(on the application of
C
lient
E
arth) v. Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
represents a pragmatic approach to a pressing public health problem. However, the appellate history of the case reveals a number of important failures in the proper process of
E
uropean
U
nion law, in relation to the granting of an effective judicial remedy and with regard to the preliminary reference procedure.