TY - JOUR
AU1 - Macrory, Richard
AB -  The role of the judiciary in the development and implementation of environmental law is currently high on the environmental policy agenda. In Judicial Protection of the Environment, a senior British Appeal Court judge, Sir Robert Carnwath, considers the current initiatives of judges, both internationally and within Europe, to improve cooperation and understanding of the application of environmental law. He argues that while judges play a vital role in the protection of the environment the nature of the role will differ according to the jurisdiction within which they operate and the extent to which there is a developed environmental regulatory system. Within the United Kingdom, he accepts there are serious questions about issues such as costs and remedies, but questions whether a new specialist environmental court is the most productive way forward. The judiciary do sometimes make mistakes in the application of law. In State Liability for Decisions of Courts of Last Instance, Pål Wennerås of the University of Amsterdam considers the implications of the development of the European Court of Justice's doctrine of state liability for the failure to implement Community law. The European Court has recently extended the doctrine to a situation where a supreme court had 
TI - Editor's Foreword
JF - Journal of Environmental Law
DO - 10.1093/jel/16.3.313
DA - 2004-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/editor-s-foreword-tpfPFcLyqt
SP - 313
EP - 314
VL - 16
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -