The Protection of Environmental Rights and Interests through Legal Action
Keywords:
environmental rights and interests, public environmental interest, right to a favorable environment, protection of rights and interests, access to justice, group-action (collective, class-action) lawsuit.Abstract
The article is devoted to a theoretical and practical analysis of the issues of improving procedural legislation by means of introducing effective mechanisms of legal leverage on procedural aspects governing the protection of violated environmental rights and interests of citizens or other parties to environmental law matters. A certain new development can be the introduction in Ukraine of the legislation on a group-action (collective, class-action) lawsuit that will simplify public access to justice, enhance its quality, accelerate legal investigation (including that of environmental cases) by reducing case loads of courts. The article substantiates the need for new mechanisms aimed at protecting the rights and interests of a significant number of persons. It is a crucial matter, considering the specifics of environmental cases. The legislation on a group-action lawsuit has to become an important legal mechanism for preventing violations of the rights and interests of parties to environmental matters.
As of today, there is a lack of proper legislative regulation of the specifics of resolving this type of cases.
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