Caroline E. Foster

Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals (eBook, PDF)

Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By canvassing a range of international scientific disputes, including the EC-Biotech and EC-Hormones disputes in the WTO, the case concerning Pulp Mills and the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case in the International Court of Justice, and the Mox Plant and Land Reclamation cases dealt with under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Caroline Foster examines how the precautionary principle can be accommodated within the rules about proof and evidence and advises on the boundary emerging between the roles of experts and tribunals. A new form of reassessment proceedings for use in exceptional cases is proposed. Breaking new ground, this book seeks to advance international adjudicatory practice by contextualising developments in the taking of expert evidence and analysing the justification of and potential techniques for a precautionary reversal of the burden of proof, as well as methods for dealing with important scientific discoveries subsequent to judgements and awards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139064651
• Artikelnr.: 38277971

Autorenporträt

Caroline E. Foster is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She also advises governments and NGOs on matters relating to disputes before international courts and tribunals and issues arising in public international law more generally.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Context and Theory: 1. Introduction
2. Cooperation between disputing parties
Part II. Expert Evidence: 3. Methods for taking expert evidence in scientific disputes
4. The role of adjudicators and the role of experts
Part III. Burden of Proof: 5. Getting to the heart of the rules on burden of proof
6. Reversing the burden of proof to give effect to the precautionary principle
Part IV. The Finality of Adjudication: 7. Finality, revision and nullity in scientific cases
8. Reassessment proceedings and res judicata
9. Conclusion.