Environmental Offences in UK Law

  • Preliminary insights on green criminology in Malaysia
    • No. 29-3, May - December - October - September - August - August - August - August - July - July - July - July - July - July - July - July - June - June - January 2022
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 1078-1090
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of environmental offences committed in Malaysia charged under the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (EQA1974). Design/methodology/approach:...
    ... ... –The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of environmental offences committed inMalaysiacharged under the Environmental Quality Act ... ...
  • Doing Justice to the Environment
    • No. 77-3, June 2013
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
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    This article examines some of the characteristic features of environmental offences, in particular the ways in which these offences and their treatment in the courts deviate from general principles...
    ... ... examines some of the characteristic features ofenvironmental offences, in particular the ways in which these offencesand their treatment in the ... Despite the fact that environmental offences are oftenlabelled as quasi-criminal, there has been long-standing ... ...
  • Preliminary insights on green criminology in Malaysia
    • No. 29-3, May - December - October - September - August - August - August - August - July - July - July - July - July - July - July - July - June - June - January 2022
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 1078-1090
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of environmental offences committed in Malaysia charged under the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (EQA1974). Design/methodology/approach:...
    ... ... The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of environmental offences committed inMalaysiacharged under the Environmental Quality Act ... ...
  • Revisiting the Role of Negotiation and Trivialization in Environmental Law Enforcement
    • No. 46-1, March 2019
    • Journal of Law and Society
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    Using an empirical assessment of the use of enforcement undertakings by the Environment Agency and the engagement of the courts with the recently enacted sentencing guidelines for environmental off...
    ... ... undertakingsby the Environment Agency and the engagement of the courts with therecently enacted sentencing guidelines for environmental offences, thisarticle argues that the enforcement of environmental law is undergoingsignificant change. This change manifests itself in an increasedreliance ... ...
  • The ecocrime directive and its translation into legal practice
    • No. 8-2, June 2017
    • New Journal of European Criminal Law
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    Directive 2008/99/EC, on the protection of the environment through criminal law, was approved after fierce dispute among European institutions. Its aim was to harmonise the definition of environmen...
    ... ... ecocrime directiveand its translation intolegal practiceEU green offences and their impact at national levelaccording to the results of a recent ... Primary EU law requiresthat environmental protection be integrated into the definition and implementation of all ... ...
  • Ecocentrism and criminal justice
    • No. 22-3, August 2018
    • Theoretical Criminology
    • 0000
    Ecocentrism refers to valuing nature for its own sake. This ecophilosophical orientation requires that all social practices incorporate ecological sensitivities and heightened awareness of the intr...
    ... ... law and in regards to the prosecution of human subjects for environmental offences. A basic premise of the article is that for those interested in ... ...
  • Environmental Enforcement Undertakings and Possible Implications: Responsive, Smarter or Rent Seeking?
    • No. 76-2, March 2013
    • The Modern Law Review
    Enforcement undertakings have recently been added to the Environment Agency's list of mechanisms available for the enforcement of certain environmental offences. An enforcement undertaking is a wri...
    ... ... have recently been added to the Environment Agency’s list of mechanisms available for the enforcement of certain environmental offences. An enforcement undertaking is a written agreement between the regulator and the offender in which the offender proposes to undertake particular ... ...
  • Green groups launch offensive against negligent directors.
    • No. 2004, November 2004
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • News Round-Up - Brief Article
    ...Leading environmental bodies are calling for tougher penalties against company directors who are convicted of environmental offences ... In the past year a record number of directors have been found guilty ... ...
  • An Evaluation of Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in Nigeria
    • No. , August 2022
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law
    • 323-343
    ... ... deliberate environmental abuse, non-compliance and concealment or falsification of information or records, should be treated as criminal offences. 1 The after-effect of this global consensus is that the criminal sanctions approach to the enforcement of environmental law has been adopted by ... ...
  • LeRoy C Paddock, David L Markell and Nicholas S Bryner (eds), Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law
    • No. , January 2018
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 169-170
    ... ... When the focus is on criminal liability, issues considered include the mental state required for criminal responsibility for environmental offences and corporate liability, while two chapters examine how far standard civil law concepts such as nuisance can be used in environmental contexts, in ... ...
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