Brazilian Class Actions for Ambiental Damage and Third Intervention

Abstract

This article studies the objective liability due to ambiental damages, that depends on the evidence of the damage and the causal relationship. After that, it observes the procedural institute of the third intervention conceived in order to call to the action a third whom the parties may have with a right of regression if they would lost the judgement. And, finally, it defends the possibility of this kind of intervention in Brazilian class actions for ambiental damage.