ERCS has now received 500 enquiries to our free legal advice service. Our snapshot summarises who, where and what environmental issues we have worked with ...
Law Service
A small victory for transparency: the establishment of an agricultural EIA register
In this long read, our Legal Director Dr Ben Christman reflects on why it took over seven years for a public body to comply with legal transparency duties, and what this tells us about the flaws in Scotland’s environmental governance regime ...
Win: Environmental Impact Assessments of large agricultural projects finally made public
After ERCS challenged RPID’s failure to comply with the law, they have finally published the register of agricultural Environmental Impact Assessments ...
Failings at Scotland’s environmental watchdog exposed by environmental law charity – press release
A new report published by ERCS has identified a series of failures at Environmental Standards Scotland, an environmental watchdog established to enforce environmental law ...
Scotland’s environmental watchdog needs a trip to the vet
Read ERCS's report on our first 11 representations to Environmental Standards Scotland, and our legal director's summary ...
Win: Scottish Forestry to publish decisions about Environmental Impact Assessments
After ERCS identified a breach of law, Scottish Forestry’s decisions on forestry projects will be more transparent ...
ERCS advice service: Our first 250 cases
ERCS runs Scotland’s only free legal advice service on environmental law. Our first 250 cases reveal the widespread range of environmental problems across Scotland ...
ERCS advice service – a brief overview
We offer free advice on environmental law. Since launching in June 2021, we’ve received 127 enquiries from individuals, community groups and NGOs based all across Scotland ...
