The UK's Royal Courts of Justice
UK High Court throws out upstream challenge
Activists’ efforts to have the revised OGA Strategy ruled unlawful are rejected by judge
A UK High Court judge has “substantially agreed” with UK offshore regulator the OGA and the country’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners against the former’s revised strategy for UK oil and gas production attempted to rely on experts that were “not objective”, “adversorial”, and not “confined to topics on which they might be said to have a relevant expertise”. Mrs Justice Cockerill threw out the case. Strong words In a damning judgment of the campaigners’ tactics, Cockerill criticises the failure of both the experts and the solicitors for those bringing the case for ignoring civil procedure rules and guidance on
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