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Villagers accused of causing global warming through forest encroachment intend to ask the Administrative Court to revoke a regulation that allows a government agency to file a civil case against them. Boon Saejoong of the Land Reform Network said the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department (DNP) model for calculating the cost of damage caused by deforestation was unreasonable.

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The new divisions are intended to speed up the legal proceedings involving environment-related cases to better ensure justice and solve problems more quickly, said Supreme Administrative Court president Hassawut Withitwiriyakul.The divisions were inaugurated at the Supreme Administrative Court, the Central Administrative Court and nine regional administrative courts across the country.

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Senior justices from Thailand visited Land and Environment Court of New South Wales to better understand court policies on adjudicating environmental cases.

Challenge

On May 25-28, 2011, the Philippine Supreme Court and the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA) hosted officials of the Indonesian Supreme Court and other relevant institutions for an observational program in Manila and Pampanga aimed at strengthening judicial capacity and court systems for handling environmental cases in Indonesia.