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Dingpa paper mill, also known as the All-China Environment Federation and Guiyang Public Environmental Education Centre v. Dingpa paper mill

Country/Territory
China
Type of court
National - higher court
Date
Jan 20, 2011
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Court name
Guiyang Qingzhen People’s Environmental Court
Seat of court
Qingzhen City; Guiyang City; Guizhou Province
Judge
Luo Guangqian; Shuai Jiang; Liu Xiaojing
Reference number
No. 4 (2010), First Instance, Civil Division, Qing Environmental Protection [ (2010) 清环保民初字第4号]
Language
Chinese
Subject
Legal questions, Water
Keyword
Hazardous substances Inland waters Waste management Resource/damage valuation Access-to-justice
Abstract

In this case, the plaintiff is the All China Environment Federation, a Non-Governmental-Organization devoted to environmental protection. This case is the first case in China where a civil society organisation helped to cover litigation cost in a case.

The plaintiff sued the Dingpa paper mill for the pollution of the Nanming River and of the Wu River caused by the discharge of effluent from the defendant paper mill facility.

The case was brought in front of the Guiyang Quingzhen People’s Environmental Court. The court ordered the defendant to halt pollution and to take quick measures to reduce the environmental impact of its activities.

What make this case special is that the court allowed the plaintiff to have parts of its litigation costs paid by another NGO, the Two Lakes and Reservoir Protection Fund, which was not taking part into the case.

(Contribution: Case provided by Professor Tianbao QIN, Tang HE, and Han GAO, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China)

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