The Elephant in the Courtroom: An Analysis of the United Kingdom’s Ivory Act 2018, Its Path to Enactment, and Its Potential Impact on the Illegal Trade in Ivory

C. Cox
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Abstract In 2019, Royal Assent was granted to the United Kingdom’s Ivory Act 2018. The legislation, introduced by Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2018, was welcomed by politicians and conservation groups as “an extraordinary achievement” and “a landmark in our fight to protect wildlife and the environment.” In passing through the Parliamentary process in only seven months, the Ivory Act was testament to the cross-party commitment to tackling the illegal ivory trade. However, its path to enactment has not been smooth sailing. Following Royal Assent, the Ivory Act was the subject of judicial review brought by a company created by a group of antiques dealers, the Friends of Antique Cultural Treasures Limited, for the purpose of challenging the Ivory Act. While the Ivory Act is now considered among the strictest ivory trade legislation in the world, this article considers its path to enactment, its likely impact on the trade in ivory artifacts in the United Kingdom, and whether the act can fulfil the British government’s aim to make it “one of the toughest bans on the planet.”
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法庭上的大象:对英国《2018年象牙法案》的分析,其颁布之路,及其对象牙非法贸易的潜在影响
2019年,英国《2018年象牙法案》获得御准。这项由环境大臣迈克尔·戈夫(Michael Gove)于2018年提出的立法受到政界人士和保护组织的欢迎,被视为“一项非凡的成就”和“我们保护野生动物和环境的斗争中的一个里程碑”。《象牙法案》仅用了7个月就通过了议会程序,证明了跨党派致力于打击非法象牙贸易的决心。然而,该法案的实施之路并非一帆风顺。在获得王室批准后,《象牙法案》受到了一家由古董经销商组成的公司的司法审查,该公司名为“古董文化珍宝之友有限公司”,目的是挑战《象牙法案》。虽然《象牙法案》现在被认为是世界上最严格的象牙贸易立法之一,但本文考虑了它的颁布路径,它对英国象牙制品贸易的可能影响,以及该法案是否能实现英国政府的目标,使其成为“地球上最严厉的禁令之一”。
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