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Appeal Case of Villager's Committee of Ren'an Village Qixing Town Liangping County etc. and LIU Guoquan etc. concerning Environmental Right Infringement

País/Territorio
China
Fecha
Apr 9, 2007
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Nombre del tribunal
2nd Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing
Juez
CHENG Yang (presiding)
ZHANG Shiwei
SHENG Jianhua
Número de referencia
(2007)渝二中民终字第141号
Resumen

The drying up of aqueducts used by the plaintiffs caused great negative effects on their life and production. The plaintiffs therefore claimed that the defendants mining activities destroyed the coal seam which resulted in the destruction of surface and ground water, and water resources losses. The 1st instance court found that environmental infringement includes destruction of water resources to which the principle of inversion of burden of proof applies. Since the defendants failed to prove that their mining activities were irrelevant to water resources destruction, they had to bear the detrimental consequences of incapability of providing proof. Thus the 1st instance court held that the mining activities of defendants constituted environmental infringement to the plaintiffs, and shall be liable for compensation jointly. The defendants appealed. The 2nd instance court upheld the original verdict and dismissed the appeal.

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