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77 documents for environmental offences and penalties act 1989

- Environmental Offences, Management Systems And The Due Diligence Defence.
...Significant increases in penalties (to a maximum of $5M for the most serious environm... the Environmental Offences and Penalties Act 1989 (now section 169(1)(c) of the POEO Act). A company...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2006, January 2006
- Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. (2008)
...In 1989, petitioners' (collectively, Exxon) supertanker gr...The Clean Water Act's water pollution penalties, 33 U. S. C. §1321, do not preempt punitive-damag... state and federal claims for environmental damage, with payments exceeding $1 billion, and th... for example's sake, to prevent such offences in [the] future"). . . A third historical justifi...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Eighth Amendment: Further Guarantees In Criminal Cases
... release from imprisonment and provided penalties for judges who did not comply with the Act. That a... retarded is constitutional, the Court in 1989 found "insufficient evidence of a national consens... sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, where the proof is evident, or the presumption gr... who alleged exposure to secondhand "environmental" tobacco smoke stated a cause of action under the ...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

- Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Gains Greater Protection In New South Wales.
...Other changes aimed at environmental protection are also introduced under the Amendment... and defence provisions for those offences and new processes for applications for Aboriginal ...Maximum penalties for offences have also been increased to align wit... or the State Emergency Rescue Management Act 1989 . any thing specifically required or permitted und...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2010, January 2010
- Towards holistic transnational protection: an overview of international public law approaches to kidnapping.
...(31) Domestic penalties range from imprisonment of between 1-10 years, and..., prosecution, and punishment of the offences to individual nations. The current system has fail... case of discrimination or labour or environmental human rights), in the case of enforced disappearan..., goes back to an initiative of the year 1989 in which Trinidad and Tobago made a request to the...
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Vol. 38 Nbr. 4, September 2010
- Directors' and Officers' Liability in the Shadow of Insolvency.
... amount(s) and any related interest or penalties.33 n addition to amounts relating to employees, di.... (h) Environmental . Directors face significant personal exposure und...In general, environmental offences are "strict liability," which means that directors...Carling O'Keefe Breweries of Canada Ltd. (1989), 31 B.L.R 128 (Pmt. Div. Ct.); Brant Investments ...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations
General review of the legal activities of the United Nations Membership of the United Nations 97 Peace and security (a) Peacekeeping missions and operations (b) Political and peacebuilding missions (c) Other bodies (d) Missions of the Security Council (e) Other peacekeeping matters (f) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council (g) Sanctions imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations (h) Terrorism (i) Humanitarian law and human rights in the context of peace and security (j) Piracy Disarmament and related matters (a) Disarmament machinery (b) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferations issues (c) Biological and chemical weapons issues (d) Conventional weapons issues (e) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations...

... Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989 (No 169)316 of the International Labour Organizat... of women’s rights and of the existing penalties for violating those rights The Assembly urged, in... to assess and increase awareness of environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical... in preventing and combating criminal offences against cultural property, especially in returning...
- Section 8: Powers of Congress
... sold or transferred, and imposed heavy penalties upon persons dealing with them in any other way. T... Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations. . Piracies, Felonies... legislation aimed at pollution and environmental degradation. In confirming the title of the States...The Beer Institute, 491 U.S. 324 (1989). . 322 U.S. 533 (1944). . 59 Stat. 33, 15 U.S...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Conforming to the rule of law: when person and human being finally mean the same thing in Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence.
... rights, gay rights, animal rights, environmental rights, and for the elimination of workfare that e... us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences." (222) . For example, the Constitution of 1787 ap... Amendment and passed laws stiffening penalties for committing abortion. In 1869, in the same sess...When the Supreme Court of Canada held in 1989 that a fetus was not a human being and denied pers...
- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 2-3, September 2006
- Atwater v. Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318 (2001)
...for offences in like manner scandalous and prejudicial to the p...Rev. 817 (1989). Indeed, to the extent these modern histories add...); § 3063(a)(3) (same, for Environmental Protection Agency officers); 19 U. S. C. § 1589a(... arresting a person"), but that penalties for ostensibly identical conduct can vary on accou...
- U.S. Supreme Court