{"id":11714,"date":"2014-04-17T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2014\/04\/17\/united-kingdom-criminal-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:20:28","slug":"united-kingdom-criminal-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/united-kingdom-criminal-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal prosecution for environmental offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August 2002, the owner and skipper of the fishing vessel St Jacques II made history by being the first &#8216;third party&#8217; to be prosecuted for causing pollution by a tanker. The spill resulted from a collision in the English Channel between the fishing vessel and theGudermes. The &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; principle was applied as the collision was caused by the fishing vessel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November 2000, the owners of the shuttle tanker Stena Alexita were prosecuted for violating pollution laws. The owners were fined and forced to pay clean-up costs after being photographed discharging oily water overboard during routine operations, where there was a breakdown in ship&#8217;s procedures.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August 2000, the owner of the containership Coastal Bay was fined after grounding on a Welsh beach, causing a diesel spill. The owner was found guilty of failing to implement a safe watchkeeping system.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1995, the Milford Haven Port Authority and the harbourmaster were prosecuted for the Sea Empress oil spill for salvage-related issues. Ultimately, the harbourmaster was acquitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">08 Jul 2004<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2002, the owner and skipper of the fishing vessel St Jacques II made history by being the first &#8216;third party&#8217; to be prosecuted for causing pollution by a tanker. The spill resulted from a collision in the English Channel between the fishing vessel and theGudermes. The &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; principle was applied as the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-11714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-information","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}