‘Rights without any means of enforcement are truly useless. As part of the UK, Scotland is bound by the UN’s Aarhus Convention which requires that people must be able to challenge situations where their environmental rights are denied or environmental laws are broken. Article 9(4) says that these challenges must be “not prohibitively expensive”. But access to environmental justice is prohibitively expensive in Scotland’.
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Ben Christman
About Ben Christman
Tutor in Public and EU Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Member of the UK Environmental Law Association and the Scottish Green Party. Working on a research project for the Scottish Environment LINK.