Summary
Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames moved that this House regrets that the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 have been laid with insufficient regard to the overwhelmingly negative response to the proposed Rules during the consultation and to the lack of evidence that significant numbers of unmeritorious environmental claims are currently brought; that they may escalate claimants’ legal costs and act against the intention of the Aarhus Convention that the cost of environmental litigation should not be prohibitive; and that they are likely to have the effect of deterring claimants from bringing meritorious environmental cases (SI 2017/95 (L. 1)). After debate, the motion was agreed to (see division).
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25th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Session 2016–17
