Supreme People’s Court launches green tribunal
September 11, 2014 Category Environment, Pollution
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has set up an environment and resources tribunal to hear complex environmental disputes and solve increasingly severe pollution problems. In environmental cases, it can be hard to identify those responsible, damage can have been caused over a long period and both the environment and local residents can be affected. Compared with environment and resources tribunals at the local level, legal experts expect the top court’s tribunal to involve different functions, such as providing guidelines to the local tribunals and hearing individual environmental cases. “The most important tasks for this tribunal should be researching and drafting relevant legal explanations, releasing typical case studies and providing instructions to lower-level tribunals on complicated cases,” Wang Mingyuan, Environmental Law Professor at Tsinghua University, said. The number of local environmental courts has reached more than 130 nationwide since 2007. Once the tribunal under the SPC is set up, more environmental tribunals could be introduced at local level. Out of about 11 million lawsuits heard by courts nationwide every year, only 30,000 were related to the environment.
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