Jason Lowther

Teaching interests

Environmental Law, Tort law

 

Research interests

Environmental Law, especially: wildlife and conservation law; Environmental Assessment; drugs and the law; and aspects of tort law

 

Other research

• Roberts M, Cook, D, Jones P, Lowther, J, Wildlife Crime in the UK, Towards a National Wildlife Crime Unit, Centre for Applied Social Research (Wolverhampton), for Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (October 2001)

 

• Lowther, J, Cook, D, Roberts, M, Crime and Punishment in the Illegal Wildlife Trade, report for WWF-UK/Traffic International, May 2002, London

 

• Cook, D, Lowther, J, Roberts, M, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Organised Crime, report for WWF-UK/Traffic International, July 2002, London

 

• Cook, D, Roberts, M, Lowther, J, Trade Routes and the Illegal Wildlife Trade report for WWF-UK/Traffic International, August 2002, London
• (of the above reports for WWF the lead author is first)

 

• Wain, R, Cook, D, Bunce, D, Lowther J, Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis for Drug and Alcohol Service Provision in Shropshire, report commissioned by the Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Drug Action Teams (Phase one), Regional Research Institute, March 2002.

 

• Sentencing guidelines on Environmental Crime for the Magistrates association in conjunction with the environmental law foundation and WWF-UK (2002)

 

• Williams, M, Lowther J, and others Marine Archaeology Legislation Project. Project commissioned by English Heritage, University of Wolverhampton, (2003)

 

• 'Born to be Wild', Primates are not pets - report commissioned by IFAW and jointly authored with other experts on aspects of primatology (Ch.4 legislation)(June, 2005), International Fund for Animal Welfare, London
• 'Caught in the Net' - regulating the internet trade in protected species, IFAW (July, 2005)), International Fund for Animal Welfare, London

 

 

Internet only publication

• A fine body of law? Reflections on the criminal regime in respect of Anabolic Steroids. Available via ‘Steroid Law’ – a site maintained by New York Attorney, Rick Collins.

 

http://www.steroidlaw.com (has subsequently been reproduced on other sites)

 

Publications

Chapters in books

• Chapter in O’Leary (Ed.), Drugs and Doping in Sport, Socio-Legal Perspectives, 2001 Cavendish (ISBN: 85941 6624)

 

• Two Chapters in Hughes, Environmental Law (4th Ed.), 2002, Butterworths ( 2002) (ISBN: 0 406 942919)

C – Journal publications

• New law and Anabolic Steroids, Journal of Performance Enhancing Drugs, Vol 1(1) 1996

 

• Hunter v Canary Wharf, Environmental Law and Management, 9 [1997] 4 161

 

• A Fine Body of Law: Anabolic Steroids and the Criminal Law, Journal of Sport and the Law, 1998 6(3) 53

 

• Wildlife Crimes with Added Bite: Evaluating Recent Amendments to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Environmental law and Management, 13 [2001] 5 p. 249

 

• Sewers, Non-feasance and Human Rights: The Marcic Appeal, Environmental Law and Management, 14 [2002] 1 p.17

 

• Human Rights Compatibility with the Procedure for Designating SSSIs: R (on the application of Aggregate Industries UK Ltd) v English Nature and another, Environmental Liability, [2002] 3 Env. Liability p.127

 

• Natura 2000: recent developments in the Commission and the Courts, Environmental Liability

 

• • Preserving commercial certainty or defeating the purpose of species protection? CITES, protection of wildlife and documentary requirements: R ( on the application of Greenpeace Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Another
• Env.Liability 10 [2002] 5 193

 

• • Sewers, Non-feasance and Human Rights: The Marcic Appeal, Environmental Law and Management, 14 [2002] 1 p.17

 

• • Rylands v Fletcher restated – the House of Lords’ decision in Transco v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, ELM 15[2003] 6 pp367-370

 

• • The House of Lord’s Ruling in Marcic: clarifying sewage liability, ELM 16[2004]1 pp24-27

 

• • Environmental Impact Assessment on a firm foundation? Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Governmental Organisations v Department of the Environment and another, ELM 16[2004] 2 pp81-86

 

• • Examination of the public interest criteria in conservation matters: R (on the application of Newsum and Others) v Welsh Assembly, Environmental Liability [2004] 3 Env. Liability pp 127-130

 

• • Lowther, Notification & Confirmation of Sites of Special Scientific Interest – R (Fisher) v English Nature, ELM 16[2004] 4 pp205-209

 

• • More ink spilled on the definition of waste, ELM 16[2004] 5 pp263-266

 

• • Flood thy neighbour: the application of the ‘common enemy’ defence in circumstances of nuisance by flooding, Water Law 15[2004]5 pp7-10

 

• 'Plans and projects': a broad precautionary approach under the Habitats Dierctive, ELM 16[2004]6 305-308

 

• SSSI Compatibility with Article 1 of the First Protocol to the ECHR, ELM 17[2005]1

 

• Challenge to Special Area of Conservation designation, ELM 17[2005]2, p71-76

 

• (Editorial) shake-up in animal trade and welfare laws, ELM 17[2005]2

 

• Can the UK offer more protection for endangered species? An evaluation of the potential use of art. 8(2) of the EC's wildlife trade reguilation and recent developments with COTES ELM 17[2005]4, p115-123

 

Reports & invited lectures

see other research for reports written.

Conference papers delivered

• The Criminalisation of Performance Enhancing Drugs, Paper at SLSA, Manchester Metropolitan University 1997

 

• Responses to Rio – Shared Burdens or Differential Responsibility, Paper at SLSA, Manchester Metropolitan University 1997 (Joint Paper with Jo Coles)

 

• Responses to the Criminalisation of Performance Enhancing Drugs, Occasional Seminar Series, De Montford University, 2000

 

• Organised Crime involvement in Illegal Wildlife Trade, Royal Institute of International Affairs – Expert workshop on Environmental Crime, London, May 2002

 

• Regenerating Rubbish, Joint Seminar with Groundworks (environmental consultancy) Wolverhampton City Council and University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, September 13th 2003 – paper on the origins and use of targets in imposing recycling duties.

 

• Internet Trade in endangered species, Partnership for action against Wildlife Crime (DEFRA) annual seminar, London Zoological Society, March 2005

 

• Internet Trade in Endangered Species, Police and Customs Wildlife Enforcers Annual Conference, Tulliallan Castle, Scotland, October 2005.