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Severn Trent twice penalised

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 8 2008

Severn Trent Water Ltd was fined £2 million at the Central Criminal Court on 1 July for providing false leakage data to the industry regulator Ofwat

Escaping sewage treated as controlled waste

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 8 2008

Thames Water had been prosecuted by the Environment Agency under s.33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for depositing controlled waste on land without a waste management licence

Core strategy is quashed because of non compliance with PPS 12

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 1 2008

The High Court has overturned the Hampshire Minerals and Waste Core Strategy (Core Strategy) adopted in July 2007 by Hampshire CC, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, and the New Forest National Park Authority (Minerals Authorities

Pollution prosecution of members of unincorporated association

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 1 2008

In relation to a prosecution by the Environment Agency of the chairman and treasurer of a golf club in respect of the leakage of heating oil from an underground pipe between a storage tank and boiler at a golf club, the Court of Appeal ruled on 28 August that the prosecution could be brought, at the prosecution’s discretion, either against the club in its own name or against individual members and that the trial judge was wrong to conclude that individual liability of officers or members of an unincorporated association could be no different from that of companies

262: IPC rejects changes to Brig y Cwm application

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 15 2011

Today’s entry reports on the Infrastructure Planning Commission's decision on a changed application

The Environment Agency, EIA ‘projects’ and duties of disclosure

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 1 2008

In judgments given on 16 April, the House of Lords has now dismissed an appeal commenced by way of judicial review against a decision of the Environment Agency to grant an IPPC consent in relation to a cement plant in Rugby