United Kingdom grounds illegalitygrounds irrationality

R (Friends of the Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport

[2020] EWCA Civ 214

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtEngland and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Year2020

StatusOverruled

Summary

Court of Appeal held Heathrow expansion ANPS unlawful for failure to account for Paris Agreement commitments, later reversed by UKSC [2020] UKSC 52.

Key Principle

The government's failure to take the Paris Agreement temperature commitments into account when designating the Airports National Policy Statement for Heathrow expansion was unlawful.

Area of Law

environmental

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