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THE BLUE LADY CASE AND THE INTERNATIONAL ISSUE OF SHIP DISMANTLING

Florent Pelsy

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COMMENT
THE BLUE LADY CASE AND THE INTERNATIONAL
ISSUE OF SHIP DISMANTLING

Florent Pelsy

This document can be cited as
Florent Pelsy, ‘The Blue Lady Case and the International Issue of Ship Dismantling’,
4/2 Law, Environment and Development Journal (2008), p. 135, available at http://www.lead-journal.org/content/08135.pdf

Florent Pelsy, LLM (SOAS), 68 Rue du Viaduc, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, Email: [e-mail]
Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 License

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

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The Pro- Economic Approach of the Court in the Blue Lady Decision
1.1 The Blue Lady Decision in Context
1.1.1 The ship-breaking industry in Alang
1.1.2 The actual economic context in Alang
1.1.3 The Blue Lady itinerary
1.2 The Decision of the Supreme Court on the Blue Lady
1.2.1 The report of the Committee of Technical Experts
1.2.2 NGO platform comments on the report of the Committee of Technical expert
1.2.3 The economic rhetoric of the Supreme Court
1.2.4 Distortion of the concept of sustainable development
1.2.5 Contradiction with the 2003 decision on ship dismantling
The