Environmental Justice and Protection of Forest in Criminal Unification Judgment of Supreme Court

After Goods and Currency Contraband Law 2014 we saw some ambiguities about legislator’s intention in article 48 of Law concerning Protection and Exploitation of Forests and Rangelands 1968 which is provides the carriage of wood, firewood and charcoal of forest’s tree is forbidden and may be prosecuted and condemned by law of contraband 1944. In this wood charcoal crises that known in all over the world as a major cause of cutting the forest’ tree (50%) and in poor community as 80%, our courts have chosen many different approach; some of the have said that the carriage is contraband (contravention) and under competence of Tazirat organization; some of them have said that it is crime and in jurisdiction of Revolution court and some of courts have decided that it is under jurisdiction of criminal courts. Supreme Court in its unification judgment number 749 have said that it is the carriage is contraband (contravention) and under competence of Tazirat organization. It decided primarily as conflict resolution but really it decided by classification of the carriage as a contravention. This judgment is in accordance with environmental justice prerequisites and seems to protect the forests as a renewable resource that belonged to human being. Anyway, there is some critics on that judgment that cannot reduce its value.