Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court Justice Dato Paduka Haji Abdullah Soefri POKSM DSP Haji Abidin represented Brunei Darussalam at a regional judicial roundtable on environmental and climate justice on October 13.
He attended the hybrid event, hosted in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, through an online video conference.
The roundtable was organised by the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices Working Group on Judicial Education and Training, the CACJ Working Group on Climate Justice and the United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
The event brought together judges from ASEAN member states, representatives of the United Nations and its agencies, members of the CACJ working groups, Thailand’s representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, and experts in climate science, human rights and environmental rule of law.
Discussions covered climate science principles, environmental rule of law and emerging regional and global trends in climate litigation. Participants also examined challenges faced by judges in environmental cases, gaps in judicial capacity and opportunities to strengthen judicial education in climate-related, rights-based and conservation litigation.
Senior Magistrate Dewi Norlelawati Haji Abdul Hamid and Registrar Muzakkir Awang Haji Zakaria also attended.