DID GREENPEACE’S RECENT ACQUITTAL SET A LEGAL PRECEDENT IN EARTH JURISPRUDENCE?
Earth Jurisprudence: Making the law work for nature 22 – 26 September Schumacher College, at Dartington is welcoming five legal experts on the growing and topical legal specialism of Earth Jurisprudence or wild law, to consider how the legal system and other forms of governance may be harnessed to protect the natural world and to learn from real examples while exploring the philosophy and theory underpinning this exciting and evolving area of law. The course is timely, given events of the past week involving the court case between Greenpeace activists and energy giant E.ON. On 10th September 2008 at Maidstone Crown Court a ruling was given which favoured the planet and the natural world including humankind. Six Greenpeace activists were cleared of causing around £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station. Their defence argument was that their occupation of the power station prevented property damage (caused by climate change). This is a pioneering case in which preventing su
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- DID GREENPEACE’S RECENT ACQUITTAL SET A LEGAL PRECEDENT IN EARTH JURISPRUDENCE?
