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8 Apr 2019 10:16
Leaving the EU with no deal - will I still get my 2019 BPS payment?In this short article, our Head of Agriculture, Julie Robinson, takes a look at what happens to UK farmers’ right to direct payments under the CAP if we leave the EU without a deal on 12 April. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 12 April, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy will cease to more...
4 Apr 2019 08:56
Winning wasted costs against a private prosecutorDavid Pojur secured acquittal and won substantial wasted costs against a Local Authority in an Environmental Prosecution. The Clean Air Act case saw a Company prosecuted for smoke emissions in Central London despite pending applications to be carved out of the Smoke Control Zone. The private more...
1 Apr 2019 14:13
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and Mark Davies consider requirements for UK waste exporters to review contingency plans in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, a possible merger of DEFRA Non-Departments Public Bodies and new guidance for organisations to ensure more...
26 Mar 2019 10:31
Environmental Law NewsIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Mark Watson QC, Christopher Badger and Mark Davies consider evidence given to the Environmental Audit Committee about the new Office for Environmental Protection, environmental announcements in the Treasury’s Spring Statement and publication of the more...
19 Mar 2019 11:55
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Mark Davies and William McBarnett consider the Welsh Government’s consultation on environmental policy post-Brexit, UK plans to designate over half of the UK’s global waters as Marine Protected Areas and a recent case concerning the impact of licensing more...
13 Mar 2019 09:45
Food and Drink: Eco-conscious packagingCurrent trends/Pressures Globally, the production of plastic has risen overwhelmingly over the past 70 years with 1.5 million tonnes of plastic being produced in 1950 to 300 million tonnes today. It is an inevitability that with such mass production of a non-biodegradable material that there will be more...
11 Mar 2019 16:14
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, our new silk William Upton QC, Christopher Badger and Nicholas Ostrowski consider challenges to national planning and environmental policy, the consequences for employees if they fail to co-operate with the Environment Agency and continuing scrutiny of more...
6 Mar 2019 09:53
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Gordon Wignall, William Upton and Natasha Hausdorff consider recent authorities on abuse of process, closer scrutiny of air quality sampling and an EC consultation on new guidelines for company reporting on climate-related information. The revival of more...
25 Feb 2019 15:40
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, Nicholas Ostrowski and Natasha Hausdorff consider the publication of the Environment Agency’s quarterly scorecard, a new consultation on plastic packaging tax and continuing scrutiny of the draft Environment (Principles and Governance more...
20 Feb 2019 08:52
Environmental Law PodcastsThe latest monthly environmental law news podcast presented by Christopher Badger and Mark Davies in association with LexisPSL, is now available. In this short update Chris and Mark consider and discuss: the Clean Air Strategy 2019 hot topics in the relationship between investment treaties and more...
19 Feb 2019 14:40
Waste consultations – implications for food & drink and other manufacturing businessesThe future of businesses in food and drink manufacturing and its supply chain will be affected by consultations launched by Government on 18 February. The consultations, which are aimed primarily at packaging waste, close on 13 May 2019. The consultation on reforming the UK packaging producer more...
12 Feb 2019 10:25
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Charles Morgan, Christopher Badger and Mark Davies consider the sentencing in a case involving a conspiracy to defraud the WEEE régime, carbon credits and emission monitoring plans under consideration at a key international aviation industry meeting more...
11 Feb 2019 13:09
Housing Association can discriminate on religious grounds. Plus fracking and indefinite detention: The Round UpIn the News: The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has concluded that indefinite detention in immigrations centres must cease. The Committee published a critical report into the issue, which found indefinite detention has a highly detrimental impact upon detainees’ mental health. The Committee more...
6 Feb 2019 12:30
Regulatory round-up – January 2019The team at Walker Morris have produced their Regulatory round-up for January 2019: Health, Safety and Environmental – January 2019 Data Protection – January 2019 Consumer and Retail Finance – January 2019 more...
4 Feb 2019 15:47
Environmental Law NewsIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, William Upton and Christopher Badger consider a lack of remedies for breaching air quality standards, environmentally conscious ship recycling and publication of the UK’s maritime strategy. Read the full update on the Six Pump Court website now. more...
1 Feb 2019 14:27
3PB's Susan Jones represents family in inquest over the death of a dock workerProperly-enforced safety procedures would have prevented the death of a dock worker crushed by a container, an inquest jury has concluded. Mieczyslaw 'Mitch' Siwak, 34, from Bognor Regis, was killed at Flathouse Quay, Portsmouth, in 2017. MMD Shipping Services, which operates the site, said it had more...
1 Feb 2019 12:10
The ‘Net Gain’ ConsultationThe ‘net gain approach’ is an important theme in the 25 Year Environment Plan which states that the approach will become embedded in the planning system in England. The theme is echoed in the Agriculture Bill that is currently before Parliament which contains provisions enabling the Secretary of more...
1 Feb 2019 11:02
Protecting and Enhancing England’s Trees and WoodlandsThe felling of street trees by local authorities has proved controversial in recent times. In December the Government published proposals to impose a duty on local authorities to consult before felling individual street trees, subject to certain exceptions (e.g. in the case of dangerous, diseased or more...
31 Jan 2019 15:23
Environmental Principles and Governance after the United Kingdom leaves the European UnionWhilst land-use planning in England is the responsibility of the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) much environmental regulation is the responsibility of the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). In 2018, DEFRA published ‘A Green Future: Our 25 Year more...
29 Jan 2019 09:06
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, Nicholas Ostrowski and Mark Davies consider a call from the European Commission for the UK to fully comply with an urban waste water ruling, government proposals on reforming water regulation and abstraction licensing and a call from more...
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