R (Edwards) v Environment Agency
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Neutral Citation Number: [2004] EWHC 736 (ADMIN)
Case No: CO/5702/2003
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 2 April 2004
Before:
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE KEITH
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Between:
R (on the application of David Edwards) Claimant
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(1) The Environment Agency
(2) First Secretary of State
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Rugby Limited Defendants
Interested Party
Case No: CO/5702/2003
Neutral Citation Number: [2005] EWHC 657 (Admin)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Mr David Wolfe (instructed by Richard Buxton, Cambridge) for the Claimant
Mr David Elvin QC, Ms Kassie Smith (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor and the Environment Agency) for the Defendants
Mr Stephen Tromans (instructed by Rugby Limited Legal Department) for the Interested Party
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C1/2005/1014
Neutral Citation Number: [2006] EWCA Civ 174
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM QUEENS BENCH DIVISION
(THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE LINDSAY)
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London, WC2
Wednesday, 8 February 2006
B E F O R E:
LORD JUSTICE AULD
LORD JUSTICE RIX
LORD JUSTICE MAURICE KAY
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DAVID EDWARDS
FIRST CLAIMANT/APPLICANT
LILIAN PALLIKAROPOULOUS
HOUSE OF LORDS
SESSION 2007-08
[2008] UKHL 22
on appeal from: [2006] EWCA Civ 877
OPINIONS
OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL
FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE
R (on the application of Edwards and another (Appellant)) v Environment Agency and others (Respondents)
Appellate Committee
Lord Hoffmann
Lord Hope of Craighead
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Lord Mance
Counsel
Appellants:
David Wolfe
Tessa Hetherington
(Instructed by Richard Buxton)
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Parliament Square
London,
Date: 15 January 2010
Before :
MRS REGISTRAR DI MAMBRO AND MASTER O'HARE
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Between :
THE QUEEN ON THE APPLICATION OF
[DAVID EDWARDS]
LILIAN PALLIKAROPOULOS
Appellant
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THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
THE FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Respondents
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CEMEX UK CEMENT LIMITED Intervener
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Fourth Chamber)
11 April 2013 *
(Environment - Aarhus Convention - Directive 85/337/EEC - Directive 2003/35/EC - Article 10a - Directive 96/61/EC - Article 15a - Access to justice in environmental matters - Meaning of ‘not prohibitively expensive' judicial proceedings)
In Case C 260/11,
REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom), made by decision of 17 May 2011, received at the Court on 25 May 2011, in the proceedings
The Queen, on the application of:
One of England's leading solicitors has been castigated by two law lords for abusing the procedure of the House of Lords.
Richard Buxton, a claimant environmental law specialist with his own practice, was accused by Lord Hoffman of submitting a memorandum, after he had seen the draft speeches of the law lords, referring to three European directives he had failed to mention before.
As a result of the memorandum, Lord Hoffman said publication of the judgment in R (on the application of Edwards) v The Environment Agency [2008] UKHL 22 had to be postponed by a week.