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In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, Mark Beard and Antony Bartholomeusz consider the Supreme Court's decision in Mott v Environment Agency, a proposed Brexit bill amendment to maintain EU law environmental principles, and landfill tax on unauthorised disposals.

Two recent items of international climate change news have placed into stark focus one of the issues set to take centre stage later in the year.

A listed building enforcement notice in respect of the Sir Christopher Wren Hotel in the Windsor Conservation Area has just been upheld after a public inquiry.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger considers new draft waste enforcement regulations, the sentence imposed on the operator of an illegal landfill site and the European Commission's final report on financing a sustainable economy.

Ian Whitehurst instructed by Gary Broadfield at Cartwright King represented a young man accused of being part of a wide ranging online conspiracy involving participants around the globe.

The sentence of Richard Kray took place today, the man who killed his 19 year old daughter by strangulation and attempted to kill his ex-wife by the same manner.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, William Upton and Mark Davies consider the impact in the UK of China's ban on imported waste, a human rights claim for flood damage, and the launch of our monthly environmental newscast.

From January 2018, a monthly video environmental law newscast presented by Christopher Badger, in association with LexisPSL ,will be available on our website.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider an early victory for ClientEarth in its legal action to hold the government to account over their Air Quality Plan, contributions from climate change bodies to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into green finance, and extra funding for DEFRA to help prepare for Brexit.

The case of Joshua Stimpson, charged with the murder of his ex-partner, Molly McLaren, gets underway today.

An interesting feature of 2018 is that adults and children are divided by the millenium in which they were born. It is perhaps fitting that the judgment in the Greenpeace Nordic and Nature and Youth v Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (referred to by the claimants as The People v Arctic Oil) was delivered in the first week of the new year.

A former Detective Inspector facing allegations of serious sexual assault has been acquitted following a trial at Luton Crown Court.

John Buchanan, a 22 year old man from Ramsgate, has been cleared by a jury of murdering an acquaintance, Archie Ward, aged 40.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and Nicholas Ostrowski consider the Committee on Climate Change's response to the UK's Clean Growth Strategy, a nuisance case brought against a homeowner building a mega basement, and a consultation which will examine crime and poor performance in the waste sector.

The Crown finished their closing speech in the case of Hussain and others on Friday 12th January, the trial having commenced on 9th October.

Ian Whitehurst represented a waste company that successfully appealed a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, Charles Morgan and Mark Davies consider DEFRA's 25 year Environment Plan and new regulations coming into force this year which impose strict controls on the use of mercury.

A notorious strip club in west London has failed in its application to Westminster City Council to have its sexual entertainment licence renewed.

In this article, Ian Whitehurst discusses the likely effect that the recent Morrisons case will have on employers’ internal procedures as well as on their data protection and security measures.

For the first Environmental Law News of 2018, we make our predictions for the development of environmental law this year.