Environmental Litigation News
22 March 2011
In March 2011 the High Court found in favour of two Suffolk residents claiming that the operators of a stadium and track used for speedway racing and banger racing created a noise nuisance.
24 November 2009
Asbestos-related diseases are reported to cause over 3,500 deaths per year in the UK and claims for mesothelioma in particular have increased steadily since the 1970s.
24 November 2009
In 2004 8 US States, the City of New York and 3 land trusts brought a civil case against 5 large US power companies in the District Court in Manhattan alleging that they were creating a public nuisance by their emissions. The case was dismissed in 2005 but was reinstated in September 2009.
24 November 2009
At the beginning of October the European Commission announced that it was taking the UK to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the grounds that current waste water collection and treatment systems in London and Whitburn, Sunderland are inadequate and fail to comply with the 1991 EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
13 July 2009
Our Environment Team recently broadcast a webinar, jointly with PWC, on environmental liabilities and insolvency.
15 August 2008
Download the podcast from our climate change webinar.