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Judicial handbook on environmental law
… Chapter 3). Concepts in environmental law such as strict liability for hazardous activities and the law of nuisance … application of legal rules, and establish the extent of liability when harm occurs. The word environment is derived … aspects of landscape. Art. 2(1), Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… 2.2.4 Establishing liability for failure to adapt and the impacts of adaptation … Climate Change Litigation several cases seek to establish liability for entities that generate emissions with full … of those terms but dealt with the highly germane issue of liability of a local government for decisions related to its …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… Colombia 1 Cause of Action Kenya 3 Cess India 27 Civil Liability India 9 Civil Proceedings India 12 Tanzania 3 … International 9 Copper Tailing Wastes Chile 3 Criminal Liability Brazil 1 India 9, 12 Culture and Environment … International 3, 4 Legitimate Expectation South Africa 8 Liability of Company Officials Canada 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 India …
Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… Act and the Civil Procedure Code 118 3.6.2 Civil Liability under Marine Pollution Prevention Act 119 3.7 … legislation, with Principle 13 focusing on the laws on liability and compensation for the victims of pollution and … the idea that disincentives such as penalties and civil liability will cause persons to take greater care in their …
UNEP Global Judges Programme
… and the environment • corporate responsibility and liability 12 • approaches to judicial reasoning in … environmental law including, within the applicable law of liability and compensation for environmental harm under … resolution mechanisms and non-compliance procedures; liability and compensation; criminal law and the environment; …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… aggravating circum- stances, reoccurring offences, joint liability and the consequences of penalties. Need for … of the planet through new rules on indi- vidual and social liability • cultural need: to provide the common heritage of … in Baxi (ed.), Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability; The Bhopal Case (Delhi, 1986), 178–83. Agarwal, …