Environmental Law and Management - Volume 29

Environmental Law and Management - Volume 29 - Issue 2 and 3

Symposium on

ENVIRONMENTAL ADJUDICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Auckland, New Zealand, April 2017

Foreword
LAURIE NEWHOOK
Principal Environment Judge,
Environment Court of New Zealand

Public participation in environmental adjudication: some further reflections
Opening Address at the Environmental Adjudication Symposium Auckland
THE HON JUSTICE STEPHEN KÓS
President, Court of Appeal of New Zealand

Judging the environment – back to basics
Keynote address

LORD ROBERT CARNWATH

Justice of the Supreme Court of the

United Kingdom

The role of environmental courts and tribunals in promoting the rule of law and ensuring equal access to justice for all

THE HON. JUSTICE B J PRESTON

Chief Judge,

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

The National Green Tribunal, India: decision-making, scientific expertise and uncertainty

DR GITANJALI NAIN GILL

Professor in Law, Northumbria Law School,

Northumbria University, UK

How green is my ECT? The challenge of impartial objectivity

MICHAEL RACKEMANN

Judge of the Planning and Environmental Court and

District Court of Queensland

Green statutory interpretation by environmental courts and tribunals

TRACY D HESTER

University of Houston Law Center

Climate change: the role of the judiciary

MICHAEL D WILSON

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Hawai‘i

Environmental adjudication in Kenya: a reflection on the early years of the Environment and Land Court of Kenya

HONOURABLE JUSTICE SAMSON OKONG’O

Presiding Judge,

Environment and Land Court of Kenya

Environmental Justice in Chile: three years after the establishment of the Environmental Court of Santiago

RAFAEL ASENJO

Chief Justice of the Environmental Court of Santiago,

Chile

Specialised courts for environmental matters – the Swedish solution

ANDERS BENGTSSON

Senior Judge, Land and Environment Court,

Växjö, Sweden

Issues with access to justice in the Environment Court of New Zealand
ENVIRONMENT JUDGES

LAURIE NEWHOOK,

DAVID KIRKPATRICK,

JOHN HASSAN

Environment Court of New Zealand