Guardian: The government is making it too expensive for campaigners to take environmental planning battles through UK courts, a UN tribunal has warned. The judgment, hailed as hugely important by environmental law experts, could open the door to new rules covering legal costs and encourage more individuals and community groups to take their cases to the courts. Under the Aarhus convention, which came into force in 2001 and was ratified by the UK in 2005, the government is obliged to give …