We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated environmental lawyer to help us establish Scotland’s only law centre for environmental justice ...
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 ...
Dismay and concern after Scottish Government abandons flagship Human Rights Bill
The Programme for Government announced yesterday signals the Scottish Government’s abject failure to deliver on their promise of a Scottish Human Rights Bill including the right to a healthy environment ...
Former UN Special Rapporteur explains in 90 seconds why Scotland needs the right to a healthy environment
During the last six years as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Professor David R. Boyd has supported countless people across the world to implement and use their right to a healthy environment – watch his message to Scotland ...
New briefing calls for urgent reform to Scotland’s legal aid system
A new briefing, jointly authored by ERCS, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and JustRight Scotland, calls for urgent reform to improve Scotland's civil legal aid system and increase access to justice ...
ERCS is recruiting a Solicitor (Partner)
We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated environmental lawyer to help us establish Scotland’s only law centre for environmental justice ...
This Human Rights Day, Scotland must realise the promise of the right to a healthy environment
Human Rights Day marks a key moment in human history: 10 December 1948, when representatives from across the world came together to sign the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Yet the rights it contained were incomplete ...
Still no progress on access to justice in Scotland as UN deadline looms – press release
Scottish Government actions to address the ‘prohibitive expense’ of taking environmental cases to court have been branded ‘truly woeful’ by campaigners ...
