In this case, the plaintiff challenged the decision of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) refusing to grant him the permit required for his real estate project on a parcel of land that he owned on the shore of the Victoria Lake.

The plaintiffs claimed that as he was the owner of the land, he did not need any authorisation from NEMA to pursue his project. NEMA objected that the law...

In this case, the plaintiffs are 70 families of traditional fishermen and farmers from the community of Verdum the estuary of the Chone River in the canton of Tosagua in the Province of Manabi and that have been forced to leave their lands which have been bought by a company which wants to exploit shrimps ponds.

The plaintiffs sued the company in front of the court of justice of Manabi instance and...

In this case, the plaintiff sued an energy company for the damages on its land lot caused by the operations of extraction of hydrocarbon conducted by the defendant.

The defendant has been condemned by the court of first instance to pay some compensation measures to the plaintiff as indemnities for the prejudices resulting from the pollution of its lands. The decision of first instance has been...

The Awas Tingni Community was an indigenous community located in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. The members of the Community subsisted on the basis of communal agriculture, fruit gathering, hunting and fishing. The Community had no real property title deed to the lands it claimed. In 1996 the State granted a concession to a corporation to carry out road construction work and logging exploitation...

On 18.2.2009 Divisional Commissioner issued notification declaring the privately owned lands from the list of 'Mangrove Areas' as "Forest" which included the lands of the appellants. In view of the said notification, the appellants could not restart the salt manufacturing. An application was filed by the appellants seeking permission to repair the damaged bund along with the impugned land. Said...

The plaintiff unsuccessfully challenged the Minister's initial refusal to issue a certificate of compliance in respect of a property for which tax reliefs under the student accommodation scheme were to be sought. The case emphasises the importance of the certification requirements in the context of property tax reliefs.
The Court's observation that the right to appeal to the Appeal Commissioners...

The Kildare County Council (Kilcullen Link) Motorway Scheme was approved and advertised on the 28th of June 1989. The applicants’ home adjoined the proposed motorway and portion of their lands were required for the purposes of the scheme. Additionally, the scheme affected their access to the public road. The approval of the scheme by the Minister had the same effect as if a compulsory purchase...