Standing

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Supreme Court, Full Bench

Hon`ble Trilok Pratap Rana
Hon`ble Laxman Prasad Aryal
Hon`ble -Gobinda Bahadur Shrestha

Order Writ No. 35 of the year 2049 B.S (1992)

Petitioner: Suray Prasad Sharma Dhungel
Versus Respondents: Godawari Marble Industries and others

Case: Mandamus

Constitutional / Legal Issues

Whether the Constitution guarantees the right to clean: environment as the part of right to life?

Joint Stock Company Okean and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine, Supreme Arbitral Court of Ukraine, Case No. 1/47(November 19-20, 1997), published in COMPENDIUM OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS ON MATTERS RELATED TO ENVIRONMENT, NATIONAL DECISIONS, Volume III (UNEP October 2001),

http://www.unep.org/padelia/publications/Nation.Deci._Vol_3=prelims.pdf

page 332.English version.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF TANZANIA
AT DAR ES SALAAM

CIVIL CASE NO. 316 OF 2000

FELIX JOSEPH MAVIKA & 4 OTHERS………………………..PLANTIFF

VERSUS

1. DAR ES SALAAM CITY COMMISSION………………….1ST DEFENDANT
2. ILALA MUNICIPAL COMMISSION………………………2ND DEFENDANT

RULLING

IHEMA, J.

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT 107 OF 1998
[ASSENTED TO 19 NOVEMBER 1998]
[DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: 29 JANUARY 1999]

(English text signed by the President)

ACT

To provide for co-operative environmental governance by establishing principles for decision-making on matters affecting the environment, institutions that will promote co-operative governance and procedures for co-ordinating environmental functions exercised by organs of state; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Preamble

Ukraine – Ecopravo-Lviv v. Commite of Ukraine on geology and use mineral wealth issues.

1. Protection of NGO rights on access to information.
2. NGO rights on access to justice.

1997-1999

Дело « СТИНАВА»

(БЛАГОТВОРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФОНД “ЭКОПРАВО-ЛЬВОВ” ПРОТИВ КОМИТЕТА УКРАИНЫ ПО ВОПРОСАМ ГЕОЛОГИИ И ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЮ НЕДР)

Key words: standing; locus standi in leave applications; meaning of "sufficient interest"

R v Somerset County Council and
ARC Southern Limited ex p Dixon

Queen`s Bench Division (Crown Office List)

75 P & CR 175, [1997] JPL 1030

18 April 1997

Counsel:

Richard Gordon, QC and William Birtles for the applicant; Duncan Ouseley, QC for the first respondents; Richard Drabble, QC for the second respondents.

Panel: Sedley J

Judgment by: Sedley J

Environmental Foundation Limited
Vs.
Ratnasiri Wickramanayake,
Minister of Public Administration
and Two Others
The South Asian Law Reporter Vol 3(4) Dec 1996
Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka
C.A. Application No.137/96

Before: Dr Ranaraja J.

Counsel: Lalanath De Silva with Mihiri Gunawardena for Petitioner

K.C. Kamalasabeyan P.C., Additional Solicitor-General, with S. Sri Skandarajah, Senior State Counsel, for 1st and 2nd Respondents

F. Mustapha P.C. for 3rd Respondent

Dr. Mohiuddin Farooque

vs.

Bangladesh and others

Civil Appeal No. 24 of 1995

17 BLD (AD) 1997, Vol. XVII, Page-1 to 33; 1 BLC (AD) (1996) Page- 189 to 219 (1996)

A.T.M. AFZAL, CJ.-