Enforcement review: Access to environmental justice
Defra held a Conference on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters on 30 November 2004. The conference discussed the outcome of a number of pieces of research commissioned by Defra over the previous couple of years:
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Capacity Global's report, Using the Law: Barriers and Opportunities for Environmental Justice
(336
KB) written by Maria Adebowale. An Executive
Summary (50
KB) is also available. -
UCL's research into Environmental Civil Penalties: A More Proportionate Response To Regulatory Breach
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Also from UCL: Modernising Environmental Justice - Regulation and the Role of an Environmental Tribunal
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Environmental Resources Management's research Trends in Environmental Sentencing in England & Wales
(430
KB) -
A report "Environmental Justice"
(on WWF website) , co-produced by the Environmental Law Foundation,
World Wide Fund for Nature and Leigh, Day & Co Solicitors.
The Chair of the event, Derek Osborn (Commissioner, Sustainable Development Commission), provided an outline of the discussions that took place at the conference. Please note that this outline can only give a flavour of what was a very free ranging discussion, so it will not reflect fully all views or strands of debate:
- Conference on access
to justice on environmental matters - Note on discussions by
Derek Osborn, Conference Chair (80
KB)
The Review of Enforcement in Environmental Regulation has drawn on relevant aspects of this work to inform its conclusions.
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