Our Chief Officer Shivali Fifield reflects on the recent wins of ERCS's Law Service, which has now received over 700 enquiries. Read more in the latest Snapshot ...
Law Service
Protective expenses orders granted in two ERCS Law Service cases
Protective expenses orders have been granted to two clients of ERCS's Law Service to allow their environmental judicial review cases to proceed to full hearings ...
Snapshot of advice service – 500 enquiries
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 ...
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 ...
