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Wed 06 Jun 2010Lawyers urged to join EU campaign
IRISH LAWYERS are being urged to get involved in taking a landmark legal action to force radical reforms in the EU Common Fisheries Policy, in the interest of conserving threatened marine species such as cod.
The initiative is being taken by US environmental lawyer James Thornton, whose organisation, Client Earth, specialises in taking legal cases where the environment, public health or wildlife are endangered by public policy.
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