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Locus Standi and Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Matters in Nigeria: Lessons from Centre for Oil Pollution Watch V Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
0₦2,500.00Joseph Mbadugha of McCarthy Mbadugha & Co Lagos Nigeria, Visiting Professor of Lazarski University Warsaw, Poland and the Counsel to the Appellant/Plaintiff from the Federal High Court through to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the case of Centre for Oil Pollution Watch V. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation takes a second look at the landmark case. In his article, Locus Standi and Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Matters in Nigeria: Lessons from Centre for Oil Pollution Watch V. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mbadugha notes that ‘sufficient interest’ or ‘injury above other members of the society’, a determinant of locus standi developed in private litigation to ward off meddlesome interlopers, crept into the realm of public interest litigation with the resultant stultifying effect until the Supreme Court expanded the coast in COPW V. NNPC. He reviews decided cases in the evolution of locus standi in public interest litigation and suggests new paths for sustenance and development of public interest litigation and environmental law in Nigeria.
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The Liberalisation of Locus Standi in Environmental Cases in Nigeria: An Appraisal of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Centre for Oil Pollution Watch v NNPC
0₦2,500.00Adeniyi Olatunbosun, Professor of Public Law, and Dean Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Kingsley Onu, Lecturer Adeleke University Ede Nigeria in their article, The Liberalisation of Locus Standi in Environmental Cases in Nigeria: An Appraisal of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Centre for Oil Pollution Watch v NNPC, comprehensively examine the concept of locus standi in environmental cases. They review the decision of the Supreme Court in COPW V NNPC regarding the locus standi of a non-governmental organisation to sue for an act of environmental degradation. They conclude with an analysis of the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision on future of environmental litigations in Nigeria.
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The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2 – Print
0₦5,000.00In this issue of The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2, there are well researched articles on:
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Corporate Law & Practice
- Maritime Law
- Arbitration
- Economic Crimes & Sanction
- Trust Law
- Environmental Law
- Consumer Protection Law
- Taxation
- Case Review
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The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2 – E-Book
0₦5,000.00In this issue of The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2, there are well researched articles on:
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Corporate Law & Practice
- Maritime Law
- Arbitration
- Economic Crimes & Sanction
- Trust Law
- Environmental Law
- Consumer Protection Law
- Taxation
- Case Review
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The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2
0₦5,000.00In this issue of The Gravitas Review of Business & Property Law Vol.8 No.2, there are well researched articles on:
- Commercial Law & Practice
- Corporate Law & Practice
- Maritime Law
- Arbitration
- Economic Crimes & Sanction
- Trust Law
- Environmental Law
- Consumer Protection Law
- Taxation
- Case Review
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Factoring Economic Approach into Environmental Protection in Nigeria
0₦2,500.00Dr Gina Elvis-Imo, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State in her article “Factoring Economic Approach into Environmental Protection in Nigeria” examines various approaches, voluntary, regulatory and economic, to environmental protection. She argues that while a regulatory approach to environmental protection may be indubitably indispensable, the economic approach addresses environmental problems not by prohibiting the polluting activity, but by discouraging such activities through the use of economic incentives and disincentives. The paper explores the synergy between both approaches, and the need to set entitlements as well as the protection of such entitlements, without which society may operate on the basis of ‘might makes right’.
