“英國18名殘疾兒童訴科比鎮委員會”環境侵權案評析

Analysis on the Environmental Tort Case of 18 Children with birth Defects v. Corby District Council in England

科比鎮環境侵權訴訟案是英國具有里程碑意義的案件。本案的審判一方面折射出英國環境訴訟的艱難和影響環境訴訟運行的諸多問題，另一方面也涉及民事訴訟證據的多途徑搜集和專家證據的運用。該案不僅對改變我國環境訴訟審判方式具有重要的借鑒意義，而且對避免類似環境侵害的發生也具有教育和警示功能。

Corby environmental tort case has landmark significant in Britain. The trial of the case reflects the difficulties and hurdles in British environmental litigation on the one hand and on the other hand, it also involves the method of collecting evidence in multiple ways and the use of expert evidence in civil trial, which the courts and the parties pay little or no attention to in our country especially in environmental litigation. While these methods and sufficient grounds of judgment are of great value to ascertain the case facts and urge the losing party to receive the ruling and drop its challenge. The case not only has an important reference for us to change the primitive trail mode in environmental private interest litigation, but also serves lessons and warnings for our country to avoid the occurrence of similar environmental injury.