Current status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what studies it has carried out, commissioned or is aware of relating to environmental courts in other countries and whether this information is being collated to assist its “consideration of the establishment of environmental courts and other options for improving prosecution and dispute resolution”, as set out in the Partnership Agreement.
The Scottish Executive will take account of a range of research, with both a domestic and an international scope, on environmental courts and other methods of dispute resolution in its work on this Partnership Agreement commitment. This research includes, but is not limited to:
Modernising Environmental Justice: regulation and the role of an environmental tribunal
Professor Richard Macrory CBE and Michael Woods LLM
Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws UCL, 2003
Trends in Environmental Sentencing in England and Wales
Claire Dupont and Dr Paul Zakkour
Environmental Resources Management (ERM) 2003
Using the Law: access to environmental justice; barriers and opportunities
Maria Adebowale (Capacity Global)
Environmental and Civil Penalties; a more proportionate response to regulatory breach
Professor Richard Macrory CBE and Michael Woods LLM
Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws UCL
Civil Law Aspects of Environmental Justice
Paul Stookes (Environmental Law Foundation)
The Environmental Justice Project, 2004