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Opinion: What the intervention of the UN special rapporteur as an 'amicus curiae' means for the legal challenges against Woodside's North West Shelf project

Big fossil fuel projects to be judged against clearer international legal duties

Gillian Moon
Opinion: What the intervention of the UN special rapporteur as an 'amicus curiae' means for the legal challenges against Woodside's North West Shelf project

Credits: Woodside/ UNSW

Three weeks ago, a UN Special Rapporteur made headlines in Australia by seeking admission as an amicus curiae (a ‘friend of the court') in Australian Federal Court proceedings challenging the Minister's...

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