Simon Tilling

Senior Associate

Qualifications: BSc Chemistry and Law (first class joint hons) Dip. Legal Practice (distinction)

Admitted a solicitor 2006

Tel: +44 (0) 117 902 7794

simon.tilling@burges-salmon.com

Simon joined Burges Salmon as a trainee in 2004 and qualified into the Environmental Law Unit in 2006. Simon advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious environmental issues and specialises in the following practice areas:

• Environmental Litigation
• Environmental Compliance and Regulation
• Criminal Prosecutions
• Water
• Contaminated Land

Simon regularly advises on contentious environmental matters in both the criminal courts and the civil courts as well as non-contentious regulatory compliance with particular focus on water and contaminated land. Simon has also established a specialism in flooding claims. Recent examples of Simon's work include:

• advising in multi-national chemicals industry client on the environmental aspects of a breach of a global contract / indemnity claim
• advising a multi-national pharmaceuticals industry client on a contamination claim relating to a site in Sweden
• advising a multi-national petrochemicals company on a claim for migrating pollution in the Technology and Construction Court
• advising a motor auction business on a claim for losses arising from contamination of its vehicles caused by repair works at an adjacent road bridge
• advising on environmental issues arising from the closure of a large chemical manufacturing site
• defending a major land owner from a prosecution brought by Natural England under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
• representing various clients in the Magistrates' Courts relating to water pollution offences under the Water Resources Act 1991
• advising a manufacturing client on an appeal under the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005
• advising on contaminated land liabilities under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 in relation to some of the UK's most high profile designated sites, including Brofiscin Quarry in South Wales and Scotland's first "special site".
• Representing a public body and a hydroelectric power company in judicial review proceedings against the Environment Agency for failing to grant an impoundment licence for a hydropower development and for unlawfully granting an abstraction licence to a rival scheme

Simon lectures widely on environmental law at conferences and seminars and regularly contributes to publications such as the In House Lawyer Magazine, The Boardroom Magazine, Key Issues in Environmental Law and the reference text Commercial Environmental Law and Liability.