Bye Bye, Bank Birds
When environmental groups go to court, they face two handicaps: fear of the cost, and something in the judicial psyche that cannot conceive of nature being superior to economic interests. There have been few clearer examples of this than in the battles to save Lappel Bank on the Medway Estuary in Kent from reclamation. However, the final decision on the Bank, which will be given by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), may signal a turn in the tide.
