Brexit... A Lifetime of Purgatory for the UK's Environmental Laws - Or is there a Stairway to Heaven?

Authors

Philip Connor

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This paper considers the prospect that the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw from the European Union may have a detrimental effect on its environmental protections. Brexit may provide the opportunity to pursue a more environmentally focused agenda, but it is argued that the UK's plan to transpose EU legislation underestimates the complexity of the task and that the UK lacks the resources to replicate the system it currently enjoys. On this basis it is thought that a reordering of environmental law is more likely than a radical re writing of it.

Publication Date

2019-01-01

Publication Title

The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review

Volume

11

Issue

1

First Page

103

Last Page

125

ISSN

2054-149X

Deposit Date

June 2019

Embargo Period

2024-11-04

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Connor, Philip (2019) "Brexit... A Lifetime of Purgatory for the UK's Environmental Laws - Or is there a Stairway to Heaven?," The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review: Vol. 11, Article 3.
Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/plcjr/vol11/iss1/3