Environmental Litigation in China: A Glimpse of the Future?
媒体来源: ChinaLegalBlog.com
2009-08-01
China is set to see its first lawsuit by an environmental interest group against a government department within a month, a local judge said Thursday.
On Tuesday, Qingzhen municipal people's court in Guizhou province accepted the suit by the All-China Environment Federation, an interest group under the Ministry of Environmental Protection. [China Daily]
I have no special insight on this specific case, but I have often wondered (maybe even fantasized a bit, back when I was working for a firm that did litigation) what could be accomplished if the Chinese government was able to unleash the judicial system to assist with certain policy goals. Ralph Nader and U.S. consumer/product quality law in the 1970s always comes to mind when I think about this topic.
© Stan for China Hearsay, 2009. |
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