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R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd and another) v Secretary of State for Transport (Heathrow Airport Ltd, interested party)

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Reed,Lord Hodge,Lady Black,Lord Sales,Lord Leggatt
Judgment Date16 December 2020
Neutral Citation[2020] UKSC 52
Year2020
CourtSupreme Court
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  • The Queen (on the Application of All the Citizens) v Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 29 April 2022
    ...to depart from it) should, in principle, be the kind of policy which the Supreme Court had in mind in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] UKSC 52; [2021] PTSR 190, in particular at paras. 105–107 (Lord Hodge DPSC and Lord Sales JSC). As they said there, th......
  • Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 19 February 2024
    ... ... The King on the application of ... Between: (1) Save Stonehenge ... (“Historic England”) Interested Parties [2024] EWHC 339 (Admin) ... by Pinsent Masons LLP ) for Interested Party 1 ... Richard Harwood KC ... The Examination also considered another alternative which would cover 800m of the cutting ... decision of the Court of Appeal in R (Friends of the Earth Limited) v Secretary of State for ... ...
  • The British Medical Association Dr Glynn Evans v Secretary of State for Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 25 May 2022
    ...He invites me to conclude that any judicial review will be of low intensity. Relying on R (Friends of the Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] UKSC 52, [2021] PTSR 190 at paragraphs 116–122, he submits that (1) the defendant's judgment as to what factors to take into account, an......
  • The King on the application of Peak District and South Yorkshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England v Secretary of State for Transport
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 17 November 2023
    ...with matters of planning judgement other than on legitimate public law grounds (R ( Friends of the Earth) v Transport Secretary) [2021] PTSR 190 at §119). Application of the principles to the facts of the present case 45 Having set out a detailed account of the planning history of the Schem......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Legislating Ambition: Climate Change Bill 2022
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 28 July 2022
    ...and decisions based on climate change. In R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2021] 2 All ER 967 the Committee on Climate Change's advice helped the UK Supreme Court dismiss a challenge to the approval of a third runway at Heathrow Airport ......
  • High Court Upholds Decision Maker's Broad Discretion In Relation To Impact Of Emissions Of Proposed Airport Expansion
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 7 March 2023
    ...right to do', (the third category of 'relevant considerations' summarised in R (Friends of the Earth Limited) v Heathrow Airport Limited [2020] UKSC 52 ('Friends of the Given the decision letter demonstrated that the Panel engaged with the issue before concluding that it had no basis in law......
3 books & journal articles
  • Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley Global Policy No. 13-5, November 2022
    • 1 November 2022
    ...22 November 2021. 6 R (on the application of Friends of the Ear th Ltd and others) (Re-spondents) v Heathrow Airport Ltd (Appellant)[2020] UKSC 52. On appeal from: R (on the application of Plan B Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWCA Civ 214. 7 https://unfccc.int/sites/defau......
  • Climate Litigation as Strategic Litigation
    • United States
    • Environmental Law Reporter No. 55-1, January 2025
    • 1 January 2025
    ...Industrial Strategy [2018] EWHC (Admin) 1892 (U.K.); R (on the Application of Friends of the Earth Ltd. & Others) v. Heathrow Airport Ltd. [2020] UKSC 52 (U.K.); HR 20 december 2019, JB 2020, JBPr 2020/20 m. nt. van Wiersma (Stichting Urgenda/De Staat Der Nederlanden) (Urgenda Foundatio......
  • Breaching an Embargo on the Publication of a Judgment: A Criminal Contempt of Court? Her Majesty’s Attorney General v Crosland [2021] UKSC 15
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-6, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...breach of an embargo on the publication of thejudgment of the Supreme Court in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Heathrow Airport Ltd [2020] UKSC 52.The alleged breach had initially been referred to the Attorney General by the President of the SupremeCourt, Lord Reed.The respondent was an unre......

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