Legal

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) gives sweeping powers to transnational corporations to challenge democractic decisions.

Anti-fracking campaigners could face jail for alleged breach of Cuadrilla injunction.

ClientEarth has launched both English and Polish-language versions of a new campaign website. The law firm wants collect evidence from residents who believe their health is being affected by next-door industrial plants. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Pressure is building on the European Court of Justice ahead of a decision on whether to uphold a logging ban in Poland. CATHERINE EARLY reports

US officials say they are determined to 'prevent future devastation' but campaigners say fines alone will not make oil and energy companies change risky behaviour

Charities and NGOs complain high costs make it almost impossible for them to bring legal challenges against damaging environmental decisions - despite them being in the wider public interest

Crippling costs of legal action prevents people mounting challenges over environmental damage, finds UN Committee

Climate activists who broke into Aberdeen Airport hope to convince jury their actions were justified in preventing larger crime of runaway climate change

Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action

Major judicial report may not help NGOs and individuals challenge environmental damage in courts without facing prohibitive financial risk

The husband of the first woman to die from swine flu in the US is preparing a case against pork producer Smithfield Foods, part-owner of the Mexican farm where the disease is believed to have originated