Citizen Control Program
Network of Probono Lawyers

The growing social demand for environmental protection and the absence of public policies to satisfy these requests, has turned FARN into a referent to which those who feel threatened their right to a clean and healthy environment appeal. Thus FARN needs now to count on other social actors qualified to deal with and widen up the bases of access to justice in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA)

A way to achieve this goal would be through the strengthening of a Network of Pro Bono Lawyers, specialized in environmetal matters. These professionals would respond to consultations and take charge of the accusations on environmetal problems which affect the AMBA and could become leading cases

The neccessity of this Net to be formed by specialized lawyers, rests in the complexity of the environmental issues and its linkage to economic interests. These conditions require of people highly identified with the defense of public interests

General objectives:

• Strengthening of the access to justice regarding the environmental issue in the AMBA.
  
• Assistance to the advisory demands and the judicial presentations received by the Program.
• Creation of a group of juridical operators to develop the judicial actions (at present in the hands of the lawyers of the Program.)

FILED CASES

• Noise caused by trains of TBA in the City of Buenos Aires
  
  
• Unauthorized fillings in the coast of San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires

MEMBERS OF THE NETWORK

Dr. Marina Lanfranco
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata. Member of the Environmental Judicial Office - Biosphere Foundation.

Further information:
Assistant in the Cathedra II of Private International Law, UNLP, since 2002 assisting the Regular Professor Dr. Horacio Piombo. Assistant Professor with functions of an Interim Deputy Professor in the courses 2004 in the Commission Nº 4 of Navigation Law. Cathedra II. Lawyers' Bar Gratti - Lanfranco.

Dr. María Soledad Moreno (32)
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Postgrade Program in Environmental Law - 9ª Issue, Austral University. Teacher's Degree in Enterprise Law, Austral University.

Further information:
Environmental Legal Advisor. Sponsorship in administrative files regarding environmental issues. Assistance on hydrocarbon issues. Enterprise Advisory in general and in litigious matters. Assistance of Contracts in general (Lawyers' Bar D'hers).