Rights of Nature Toolkit: How to Protect Rivers in England and Wales

Date of publication:23 January 2024 

The KCL Human Rights and Environment Legal Clinic Toolkit promotes access to justice by de-mystifying the laws regulating water pollution and providing practical advice on how to use legal tools to protect rivers. The toolkit aims to help community activists, legal clinics, and legal professionals promote the Rights of Rivers, especially the right to be free from pollution.

With examples included throughout, the toolkit covers gathering information, information requests, submitting a complaint, criminal prosecutions, judicial review, environmental planning law, nuisance and human rights claims, soft-law transnational complaints, and public participation, including council motions, public consultations, and objecting to planning permission.