The Hon. Justice Brian J Preston SC Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. Prior to being appointed in November 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 25 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and 101 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law. He holds numerous editorial positions in environmental law publications and has been involved in a number of international environmental consultancies and capacity-building programs, including for judiciaries throughout Asia. Justice Preston is an Official Member of the Judicial Commission of NSW, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW, Honorary Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and also a member of various international environmental law committees and advisory boards. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and at Western Sydney University.
If you missed out on the Annual Sir Frank Kitto Lecture from the Friday 1 September 2017 1.30pm in JP Belshaw Lecture Theatre (LT1), EBL Building the details and a link to the recorded livestream can be found below.
The Hon Justice Brian J Preston SC, Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
Presents
‘What’s equity got to do with the environment?’
Hosted by the School of Law
University of New England
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most humans, in possession of a good environment, must be in want of development of it. The development of the environment benefits some, burdens others and bypasses many. The distribution of the benefits and burdens of developing the environment raises issues of equity. The notion of equity concerns evenness, fairness and justice. The members of the community of justice comprise people of the present generation, people of future generations and non-human nature, present and future. Extending equity to these members involves intra-generational equity, inter-generational equity and inter-species equity. These three principles of equity fix not only the process of decision making concerning development of the environment but also the results of decision making. The results include maintaining a healthy, diverse and productive environment, now and in the future. The three principles of equity call for distributive justice, which is to be achieved by according procedural justice: a fair result reached by a fair process. This is what equity has to do with the environment.
The Recording of this lecture along all of our other Kitto public lecture recordings can be found at: https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/academic-schools/school-of-law/public-events-and-seminars/sir-frank-kitto-lectures/
