A court ruling requires the British government to consider the potential climate impact of the oil and gas produced in the North Sea.

A legal challenge by green campaigners to block drilling at the massive proposed development off Shetland has been upheld by the Court of Session.

The approval of the North Sea oil fields has been quashed while a revised environmental impact assessment is submitted.

Sir Keir Starmer has been told to "get serious" about economic growth and sign off two North Sea oil fields blocked by the courts. Eco-campaigners Greenpeace and Uplift brought a challenge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh over decisions to give approval to the Rosebank oil field northwest of Shetland and the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen.

“The age of governments approving new drilling sites by ignoring their climate impacts is over,” Evans said. “The courts have agreed with what climate campaigners have said all along: Rosebank and Jackdaw are unlawful, and their full climate impacts must now be properly considered.”

The proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea have been ruled unlawful by the Court of Session in Edinburgh

Consent for two oil and gas fields off Scotland's coast was unlawful, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled. Campaigners challenged the UK Government on its permissions for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.

Scotland’s supreme civil court has declared the approval of the UK’s North Sea Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields unlawful, overturning consent for their development.

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A Scottish court on Thursday ruled against the development of two oil and gas fields in the North Sea in a "historic win" for two environmental groups.

A court has ruled that consent for two new Scottish oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully and their owners must seek fresh approval from the UK government before production can begin.