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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation and Conventions; 1. Introduction; I. Structure; II. Motivation, Scope and Methodology; A. Motivation; B. Scope; C. Approach to Analysis; 2. Environmental Criminal Law in Context; I. Property and Environmental Law; II. Human Rights and the Environment; III. Questions of Risk; IV. Jurisdictional Overlap-National Law and EU Law; V. Interpretation and Judicial Reasoning; VI. Criminal Law and Environmental Law; VII. Conclusion; 3. Legal Certainty; I. Defining Legal Certainty; A. Perfect Certainty |
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B. Certainty and PredictabilityC. Certainty in Context; II. Transparency and Accessibility in National and European Case Law; III. Certainty in Environmental Law; A. Perception of Immaturity; B. Dissatisfaction Amongst Wider Legal and Business Community; C. Interaction with Science; D. Tackling the Problem of Administrative Complexity; IV. Conclusions; 4. Waste, Nature Conservation and Contaminated Land: The Offences; I. Waste; II. Contaminated Land; III. Nature Conservation; A. National Law Designation; B. EU Law Designation; 5. Uncertainty in Interpretation; I. Uncertainty in Practice |
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A. Waste(i) Case-by-Case Decision-Making; (ii) Abdication of Responsibility for Providing Certainty; (iii) Reluctance to Articulate Reasons; (iv) Hard to Reconcile Outcomes; B. Contaminated Land; (i) Case-by-Case Decision-Making; (ii) Abdication of Responsibility; (iii) Reluctance to State Reasons; (iv) Hard to Reconcile Outcomes; C. Nature Conservation; (i) Case-by-Case Decision-Making; (ii) Abdication of Responsibility; (iii) Reluctance to Provide Reasons; (iv) Hard to Reconcile Outcomes; D. Conclusions; II. The Teleological Approach in the Courts; A. Waste; (i) Purposive Interpretation |
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(Ii) Dissatisfaction with the Purposive ApproachB. Contaminated Land; (i) Purposive Interpretation; (ii) Dissatisfaction with the Purposive Approach; C. Nature Conservation; (i) Purposive Interpretation; (ii) Dissatisfaction with the Purposive Approach; D. Conclusions; 6. Identification of the Cause of Uncertainty: The Regulatory Culture; I. Approach of the ECJ; II. Administrative Approach; A. Waste; B. Contaminated Land; C. Nature Conservation; D. Conclusions; III. The Ambiguous Role of the Courts; IV. Academic Approaches; A. Waste; B. Contaminated Land; C. Nature Conservation |
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v. Conclusions7. The Solution: A Change in Approach to Interpretation; I. Linguistic Analysis; II. Mischief; A. Understanding Harmfulness in the Environmental Context; (i) Harm and Harmfulness; (ii) Harm in the Environmental Context; (iii) Property and Land; (iv) Interaction with Criminal Law; (v) Comparison with Existing Approaches to Environmental Harm; (vi) The Relationship Between Nuisance and Regulation; (vii) Accounting for Uncertainty, Lack of Scientific Knowledge and Administrative Discretion; III. Seeing the Rules as Part of a Framework; IV. Explanatory and Pre-Legislative Materials |
| Summary |
This book analyses the interpretation of environmental offences contained in the waste, contaminated land, and habitats' protection regimes. It concludes that the current purposive approach to interpretation has produced an unacceptable degree of uncertainty. Such uncertainty threatens compliance with rule of law values, inhibits predictability, and therefore produces a scenario which is unacceptable to the wider legal and business community. The author proposes that a primarily linguistic approach to interpretation of the relevant rules should be adopted. In so doing, the book analyses the a |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 9, 2015) |
| Subject |
Environmental law -- Interpretation and construction
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Environmental law -- Language
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Environment law.
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LAW -- Environmental.
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Environmental law -- Interpretation and construction
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Delictes ecològics.
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Dret ambiental.
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Contaminació.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782259114 |
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1782259112 |
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9781474203449 |
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1474203442 |
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9781782259121 |
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1782259120 |
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