A new runway for London's Heathrow airport designed by architecture firm Grimshaw could go ahead after a ruling against it was overturned by the UK's top court.
The third runway at Heathrow was blocked in a landmark case earlier this year, when the court of appeal agreed that expanding the airport would jeopardise the country's commitment to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.
However on 16 December 2020, the supreme court overturned the decision, allowing Grimshaw's £14 billion expansion to proceed. "International treaties are binding only as a matter of international law and do not have an effect in domestic law," ruled the judges....read here
