Foreword by Principal Environment Judge Laurie Newhook of the Environment Court of New Zealand

摘要

The papers in this issue of the Journal were presented at the international symposium 'Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century', held in Auckland, New Zealand in April 2017. The symposium was organised by 'Environmental-Adjudication.Org', a research group formed to discuss and debate the challenges of adjudicating for the environment, based at the University of Otago, and comprised of academics, judges and environmental law practitioners from around the world. The principals of Environmental-Adjudication.Org, alongside myself, are Associate Professor Ceri Warnock of the University of Otago, Professor Emeritus George (Rock) Pring of the University of Denver; Colorado, and Catherine (Kitty) Pring. Initially established with a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, the group held a judges' forum at the IUCNAEL Colloquium in Oslo, Norway in June 2016, and have established a judicial forum at http://environmental-adjudication.org, providing for the dissemination of information, including research into environmental adjudication, mutual knowledge-sharing amongst members of environment courts and tribunals around the world, and the organisation of training, symposia and conferences. The Auckland Symposium was attended by 200 people, and brought together representatives of over 30 jurisdictions engaged in specialist environmental adjudication. Participants were privileged to hear presentations from members of the judiciary and academics from around the world, with the keynote address being given by Lord Carnwath of the UK Supreme Court. Associate Professor Warnock was invited to summarise the proceedings and her closing comments are included below.