All Outputs (32)

Litigating extraterritorial nuisances under English Common Law and UK Statute (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Cambridge University Press. English common law and United Kingdom legislation provide various - overall liberal - jurisdictional grounds for hearing foreign tort claims. The article examines these grounds with reference to recent and ongoing o... Read More about Litigating extraterritorial nuisances under English Common Law and UK Statute.

The science of climate change (2016)
Book Chapter

A legal perspective on the IPCC

Environmental injustice in occupied Palestinian territory (2015)
Other

A field study of nuisance and other injustice is Palestine

Private nuisance in the balance: Coventry v lawrence (no 1) and (no 2) (2015)
Journal Article

An analysis of the Supreme Court's decision in Coventry v Lawrence

Book review: The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian Britain (2014)
Journal Article

Nuisance law and environmental protection : A study of nuisance injunctions in practice (2013)
Book

The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the environmental benefits arising from compliance with common law nuisance injunctions during the British industrial revolution. It argues, based on the outcomes of industrial nuisance actions involving allegations of serious a... Read More about The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements.

Town mouse and country mouse: A fable for the twenty-first century (2013)
Journal Article

An editorial article crticially examining an Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee decision concerning wind farms servicing towns and cities at the expense of rural landscapes from the pespectrive of a fable of Aesop.

Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence (2012)
Journal Article

Contrary to the leading studies of Brenner and McLaren, it is argued that nuisance law was consistently a robust constraint on polluting industrial enterprise during the industrial revolution. The defining nuisances of industrialisation were 'inter-n... Read More about Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence.

Cancun and the new voluntarism in international climate change law and policy (2011)
Journal Article

An editorial critically reflecting on the Cancun Conference of Parties to the Framework Climate Change Convention

US climate nuisance action halted by Supreme Court (2011)
Journal Article

Discussion of Connecticut ruling, 2011, with comparison drawn with English common law.

The royal commission on environmental pollution (2010)
Journal Article

A reflection on the HMG's decision to disband an expert policy advisory body dating back to the origins of C20 environmental policy and law

American nuisance law and greenhouse gases (2010)
Journal Article

A discussion of climate change nuisance litigation pending a Supreme Court ruling on the matter in the Connecticut case.

'Earth jurisprudence' versus 'ecological service analysis' (2010)
Journal Article

A comparison between emerging new concepts in environmental policy and law, drawing attention to similarities and key differences

Climate change agnosticism - its meaning and implications (2009)
Journal Article

An interpretation of climate change act as based on the precautionary principle, rather than scientific knowledge of certain environmental problem, based on Hawkins' research.

'Streamline' siting of nuclear power stations: The implications of 'participation law' (2008)
Journal Article

A discussion of the constraints relating to the siting of new nuclear power stations arising from the Aarhus Convention

The secret achievements of nineteenth century nuisance law (2007)
Journal Article

An in-depth, micro-contextual analysis of Attorney General v Birmingham Corporation (1858), charting the clean up of sewage pollution through the enforcemt of the common law of nusiance during the industrial revolution.

Integrated pollution control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking progress within the history of environmental law (2007)
Journal Article

Three theories of the history of environmental are introduced, applied, and discussed: 'progress'; 'constraint'; and 'cycle' theories. The cycle theory is defended in relation to an extended case study of integrated pollution control legislation, 186... Read More about Integrated pollution control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking progress within the history of environmental law.

Tipping v St Helens Smelting (1865): 'Anti-development' or 'sustainable development'? (2007)
Journal Article

An in-depth, micro contextual study of Tipping, looking at the law and the impact of its enforcement on the town and countryside at the centre of this leading nuisance action.

Silent spring in Britain today (2006)
Journal Article

A retrospective on attitudes to the environment, tracing modern attitudes back to the time of Britain's 'silent spring' which pre-dated, yet was overshadowed, by that in the US.