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In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger considers Environment Agency plans to update the OPRA scheme, a new chemical regulation report, and the European Commission's new Roadmap on pharmaceutical regulation.

Chambers is pleased to welcome Katherine Kelleher to the Crime team at Six Pump Court. Kate’s practice comprises Criminal Defence Work and some environmental crime....

Members of the Six Pump Court Chambers Food Law Team will host a session at the CTSI Conference taking place this week in Harrogate.

Stuart Jessop, along with Luke Johnson, Pizza Express founder and former chairman of Channel 4, Nigel Rosenthal, managing director of SaferFood Company, and others,...

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider a new waste crime report published by the Environmental Services Association, a ruling by the European Court of Justice which found the UK guilty of a breach of clean water law, and an interpretative communication issued by the European Commission on access to justice in environmental matters.

In an interview for The Guardian’s University of Law Partner Zone, Mukhtiar Singh makes the case for a diverse Bar and encourages switching career...

A case involving alleged familial sexual abuse of the gravest kind spanning a 25-year period and two generations of the same family began on...

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger considers the consequences of failure to comply with a Remediation Order, the rejection of DEFRA's application to delay consulting on its revised air quality plan and a plea to extend the EU emissions trading scheme for the UK after Brexit.

Giles Atkinson has successfully defended an LPA’s decision not to apply the Vacant Building Credit to a 46 house development in the Metropolitan Green...

The jury will retire today in the trial of Lucy King, a 39 year old mother charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of...

Six Pump Court’s Ian Rees Phillips has prepared an opinion on the business model utilised by online estate agents for the UK Proptech Association,...

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider the jail sentence recently received by a waste operator, the reduction in Environment Agency enforcement officers, and the failure of the latest challenge to Cuadrilla's Lancashire fracking plan.

Six Pump Court presents the first in our series of environmental and public law seminars to be held this year: Judicial Review: Tactics for...

The Government has said that it would rather accept no deal than a bad deal for the UK, yet it accepts that no economic assessment has been performed that might evaluate the cost to the UK economy if no deal is reached with the EU by the end of the Article 50 process. We consider a few of the potential effects of failing to reach any form of agreement.

The curtain has finally come down on the long-running planning enforcement case where William Upton has been advising the Broads Authority on the unlawful...

Thomas Stern has secured an acquittal for a Czech lorry driver, Jaroslav Horvath, who was tried for causing death by dangerous driving. The incident...

In an article published on this website, Frances Lawson discusses whether corporate social responsibility is making a move from ‘soft law’ to ‘hard law’....

Stuart Jessop successfully represented a Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Driver's Association in their opposition to a local authority's proposal to replace an existing...

In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider the issues of marinas on the River Thames, pressure for an International Court for the Environment, and the possible impact of Brexit on "environmental dumping" in the UK.

Members of the Environmental Law and Public Law Teams at Six Pump Court will be presenting a series of seminars covering both environmental regulation and...