MINISTERS are to miss a crucial deadline to stop breaches in the law that protects Scotland’s precious landscape, environment and wildlife.
Scots legal justice charity, the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS), has raised concerns to the Scottish Government over the failure over the nation’s “unaffordable” court system after it said an attempt to by Scotland’s civil justice rule-makers to plug a part of the problem has failed.
Scotland has, since 2011, been found to be non-compliant with Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention, which is a binding piece of international legislation that guarantees the right to a healthy environment.
In particular, Scotland and the UK, which adopted the convention in 1998 are still failing to meet their legal responsibility which requires them “to remove or reduce financial barriers to access to justice”. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24501826.scotgov-miss-deadline-stop-breaking-environmental-laws/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgmedleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQy-0nVgWcY6aZCDCJISf9g2QhZQ4SMOPcZZ3PM_EtFzOMirdvf-9Zw28w_aem_JilOPhGkeb-FesH9VP26Xg
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