Interpreting Environmental Offences: The Need for Certainty - Couverture rigide

Lees, Emma

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849467374 ISBN 13 : 9781849467377

Editeur : Hart Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

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 appropriate judicial role in an area of high levels of scientific and administrative complexity. The book provides a framework for interpretation of these offences. The key elements that ought to be included in this framework-the language of the provision, the harm tackled as drafted, regulatory context, explanatory notes and preamble, and finally, purpose in a broader sense-are considered in this book. Through this framework, a solution to the certainty problem is provided.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Emma Lees is Professor of Transnational Law at the European University Institute, Italy, and Professor of Environmental and Property Law, University of Cambridge, UK.


Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hart Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849467374
• ISBN 13: 9781849467377
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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