Abstract
These proceedings discuss the crucial issue of how to protect the environment. The papers examine whether criminal law is the most appropriate instrument or whether there are more flexible cost efficient means for curbing environmental degradation. Information based strategies, environmental audits and third party enforcement strategies are suggested as additional mechanisms of environmental regulation.
Proceedings of a conference held 1-3 September 1993, Hobart
Contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Glossary of terms/abbreviations
- Introduction
Neil Gunningham and Jennifer Norberry - The nature of environmental crime
Brian Robinson - Criminal law and environmental protection - overview of issues and themes
Nicola Pain - Old wine in new bottles: difficulties in the application of general principles of criminal law to environmental law
Zada Lipman - Practical difficulties in prosecuting environmental offenders
Steven Molino - Tasmanian approaches to environmental offences
Richard Bingham and Ian Woodward - Problems with defending crimes against the environment
Philip Clifford and Sharon Ivey - The role of the NSW Land and Environment Court in environmental crime
Paul Stein - Criminal responsibility in relation to offences in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Darin Honchin - Corporate criminal liability
Matthew Goode - Prosecuting the crown for environmental offences
Andrew Beatty - Australian pollution laws - offences, penalties and regulatory agencies
Jennifer Norberry - Prosecution guidelines: a commentary
Dorelle Pinch - Enforcing laws in a remote location - Antarctica
Wendy Fletcher - The Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment and proposals for uniform offences and penalties
R. J. Fowler - Recent developments in environmental criminal law in New South Wales
Josephine Kelly - Pollution from ships: a global perspective
Paul Nelson - The environmental audit as a "sanction" or incentive under the Victorian Environment Protection Act 1970
Sandra Edmonds - Confidentiality of environmental audit documents
Jan McDonald - Self-regulation
Ian A. Prince - Empowering the public: information strategies and environment protection
Neil Gunningham - Citizen suits - tools for improving compliance with environmental laws
David Mossop - Bill of Rights legislation as a sanction against environmental offenders
Peter Breen - Innovative enforcement mechanisms in the United States
Mark Squillace