Save Langebaan Lagoon update

Save Langebaan Lagoon Committee members have been busy over the last few weeks consulting with attorneys and advocates, experienced in environmental and administrative law litigation. We have taken note of their professional guidance and recently instructed an advocate, Peter Kantor, of Kantor Legal Services, to draft an opinion on our prospect for success in legally challenging the decision by the Minister of Environmental Affairs to dismiss our appeal against the ADZ authorisations.

This is an important intermediate step, to provide clarity and certainty and to assist us in making an informed decision before we proceed with a judicial review. Advocate Kantor will assess the merits of our grounds for appeal, focus on the strongest grounds for a review, as well as provide strategic advice.

We will need to raise R200 000 by mid-September in order to cover this aspect of legal services.

Thereafter, if counsel’s opinion indicates that we have a winnable case, we will instruct a suitably experienced attorney to draft application papers and launch a judicial review, before the 5th December 2018. The attorney will brief the advocate who will present our case in the High Court. The case preparation and the litigation process will require an upfront payment to the attorney’s trust account of approximately R1.8 million.

We have just begun a robust fund-raising drive. If you would like to assist in anyway, please urgently contact us savelangebaanlagoon@gmail.com

How do you donate?

http://savelangebaanlagoon.co.za/About-us-and-Banking-details/

https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/save-langebaan-lagoon2018