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Judicial Course on Environmental Law
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DAY TWO:
o Licensing
o Environmental mechanisms
o Environmental assessment
o Judicial review
o Litigation – criminal and civil
• Jurisdictional issues
- Locus Standi
- Enforcement of Statutes
- Public interest litigation
• Subject matter jurisdiction
- Timeliness
- Retroactivity of legislation
- Forum non conveniens
o Remedies and enforcement including sentencing
• Enforcement and compliance
• Injunctions
• Damages
• Restitution and remediation
• Sanctions
• Sentencing guidelines
- Statutory
- Common law
o Due diligence defence
o Compliance monitoring
Teaching Tools
- Film
- Lecture
- PowerPoint
- Flip-charts
- Group discussion
- Question and answer session
- Moot court
Background Material
- United Nations Judicial Handbook on Environmental Law
- Constitution of the respective jurisdictions
- Supplementary books, documents and treaties from the United Nations
- Relevant local statutes and regulations
- Decided cases
- Training manual on environmental law by the United Nations
- Sentencing guidelines
- United Nations Publication of Summary of Judicial Decisions
United Nations Book on Treaties and International Law