Disaster trials: a step forward
Abstract
In recent decades, courtrooms have become
a key arena for voicing claims and condemnation
linked to disasters in all their possible forms: natural,
technological, environmental and health disasters.
The sentencing of three Chilean public officials
charged with manslaughter for not sounding
the tsunami alarm following an earthquake in 2010,
or the trial in which 900 private citizens accused
the Dutch government of disregarding the risks
associated with climate change, which culminated
in a guilty verdict handed down in June 2015 by
the Court of First Instance – a hugely important
precedent in international jurisprudence – are only
a few of the most recent examples of this trend.
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