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In this latest Environmental Law News Update, William Upton, Nicholas Ostrowski and Natasha Hausdorff consider legal privilege in the context of a regulatory investigation, the publication of a Joint Inquiry report entitled 'Improving Air Quality' and the EU Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan for a Greener and Cleaner Economy.

The Chambers UK Guide to Environmental Law 2018 was published this week. The Guide has been written by members of the Six Pump Court Environmental Law Team.

Following high demand in 2017, Mukhtiar Singh and Ian Rees Phillips, together with Central Law Training, will deliver a number of courses across the country in 2018.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and Charles Morgan consider the liability of a parent company for environmental harm, amendments to the CPR for Aarhus costs protection and the possibility of a new Environmental Act.

Richard Masierak was yesterday convicted of eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Frances Lawson has been invited to join the International Chambers of Commerce’s Task Force on the Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes.

Russell Broughton was accused of a punishment shooting which involved the shooting of a man in the legs with a sawn-off shotgun at point blank range.

Today Richard Barraclough QC, Fellow of the University of Hull Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, conducted a workshop for post graduate students at the Institute.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, William Upton and Nicholas Ostrowski consider the Environment Agency’s list of recently accepted Enforcement Undertakings, a new DEFRA consultation on the future of food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit, and the supplementary judgment in the most recent ClientEarth judicial review.

Natasha Hausdorff will be speaking at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2018 in Washington, D.C. next week.

The latest monthly video environmental law newscast presented by Christopher Badger, in association with LexisPSL , is now available.

On 14 February 2018, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in R (Mott) v Environment Agency [2018] UKSC 10.

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider ClientEarth's recent successful air quality case against the government and the publication of the Environment Agency’s corporate scorecard.

The case of Masierak and Wagstaff commenced today at Reading Crown Court. Oliver Saxby QC is prosecuting, leading Peter Shaw.

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.