Additionally, brought a novel claim against the Securities in applying the writ of continuing mandamus, and Exchange Commission of Thailand, the court ordered the defendant government essentially asking the court to order the SEC to agencies to submit periodic reports to the use its authority to issue regulations to require Enhancing the Role of Environmental Public Interest Litigation to Advance. [...] The to bring lawsuits to hold polluters accountable court rejected the cases, concluding that in the public interest for violation the law, and neither the Environmental Protection Law nor the experiment worked: the Administrative Litigation Law authorized NGOs to bring environmental suits against “Citizen suits have secured compliance the government in the public interest. [...] The reason in the public interest, which is why the remedies for this is to ensure that environmental public that courts may issue in citizen enforcement interest lawsuits are, in fact, filed to protect the cases are normally limited to some forms of public’s interest in a healthy environment, and injunctive relief and payment of the plaintiff’s not to compensate the plaintiffs. [...] The ability to seek such penalties, and interest, the plaintiff may demand that the corresponding risk to the defendant that defendant have civil responsibilities the court may grant them, greatly improves 18 Enhancing the Role of Environmental Public Interest Litigation to Advance Environmental Rights in Southeast Asia the plaintiff’s bargaining position with the 1992, p. [...] Access to Justice Access to Lawyers and NGOs to support In Cambodia, for example, lawyers reported EPIL that various court fees, including paying a percentage of the plaintiff’s claim to the court One of the common challenges that lawyers as a deposit and paying a fee to the court to reported in the region regarding pursuing provide service of the lawsuit on the defendant, environmental public int.
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