司法审查下的环境保护:斯里兰卡的经验

K. A. A. N. Thilakarathna
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当今世界面临着许多挑战,其中一些挑战直接关系到人类的生存。环境正在以前所未有的速度退化,这是一个这样的问题,已经在全球一级产生了关于保护环境的论述。对于斯里兰卡这样一个拥有丰富的环境美和生物多样性的小国来说,其环境的退化引起了严重的关注。人们可以争辩说,这可能是由于缺乏健康环境的可诉性权利,这意味着没有人作为一种权利可以要求健康环境。1978年《斯里兰卡民主社会主义共和国宪法》中的基本权利章节没有保护环境的规定,虽然指导原则承认环境的重要性以及该国公民保护和维护环境的相应义务,但它不是可诉性的,也就是说不能在法院强制执行。在这种背景下,推翻政府当局武断决定的司法审查机制助长了关于环境保护的宪法规定的缺乏。本文探讨了斯里兰卡法院如何以及在多大程度上通过使用司法审查成功地实现了这一目标。
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Environmental Protection through Judicial Review: The Sri Lankan Experience
The world is facing many challenges and some of them directly relates to the survival of the mankind. The environment is degrading at rates never seen before and this is one such question that has created a discourse on the protection of the environment at a global level. For a small country like Sri Lanka with riches of environmental beauty and the bio-diversity, the degrading of its environment has causes serious concerns. One can argue that, this could be due to the lack of a justiciable right to a healthy environment meaning that no one as of a right can claim for a healthy environment. The fundamental rights chapter found in the 1978 Constitution of the Democratic Socialist republic of Sri Lanka does not have provisions to protect the environment under it and while the directive principles recognizes the importance of the environment and the corresponding duties of the citizens of the country to protect and safeguard it, it is however, not justiciable meaning not enforceable in a Court of law. In this backdrop, the mechanism of judicial review which strikes out arbitrary decisions of the governmental authorities have facilitated the lack of constitutional provisions regarding environmental protection. This paper ex- amines how and to what extent the Sri Lankan Courts have been successful in achieving this target through the use of judicial review.
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