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