William Wilson is a highly experienced environmental and energy lawyer, advising companies, governments, regulators and other clients on a wide range of environmental and energy law, regulation and policy. Experience includes working with the UK government, with each of the devolved governments within the UK, at EU level, and internationally on legislative drafting projects.
He is currently working part time on a contract with the Office forEnvironmental Protection as a Principal Lawyer on Research and Analysis.
He is Recommended in Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Environment 2023
https://www.lexology.com/wwl/report/environment-climate-change
Examples of recent work include:
Environmental law and regulation
Work for Office for Environmental Protection on reports on Bathing Water in England and in. Northern Ireland, and Environmental Inspections
Advice on impacts of Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 - helping an organisation to assess its impacts, and to advocate for better environmental protection
Advice on environmental permitting and water discharge issues - enabling a contractor to meet the regulator’s requirements without damage to its business
Evidence to Welsh Senedd Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee on new structures for Governance and oversight of environmental law - contributing to the consultations on new Welsh legislation
Advice on protected species laws across the UK for a major infrastructure developer - enabling it to plan for uninterrupted compliance with laws in different UK jurisdictions
Biodiversity Net Gain Worshop for leading companies, covering new legal obligations and national and international policy context, enabling group-wide planning for emerging regulation: Advisory Group for IES and EPIC and part of Steering Group for Biodiversity Net Gain project
Water Law
Advice to a water company - successful application for an Enforcement Undertaking in place of prosecution
Water and environmental law advice to water companies and regulators.
Consultant Editor, Halsbury’s Laws, Water & Waterways Vols 100 & 101, (2018 and 2024)
Nuclear
Legislative drafting project - helping to develop drafts of a new nuclear law for a country in Europe, taking account of developing regulation of Small Modular Reactors
Nuclear law advice to regulators, new build operators, waste operations, transport companies and defence bodies covering most nuclear licensed sites in the UK.
Contributor to two books on nuclear law, and taught nuclear law at LLM Masters level at De Montfort University, Leicester
Chemicals regulation
Advice on REACH and related chemicals regulation for a wide range of companies, trade associations and government clients
Advice on UK law, regulation and policy on chemicals regulation for major US corporations - enabling compliance with UK chemicals regulation
Utilities regulation
Experience working on project work for regulators for gas and electricity, water, environment, European Commission, nuclear
NEW WORK AT THE OFFICE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
I am delighted to have started on 1 July 2024 a 6 month contract working at the Office for Environmental Protection (‘OEP’) – www.theoep.org.uk
July 17, 2024
2025 (ANOTHER) YEAR OF WATER?
November 2024 saw the publication of the 2024 5th edition of Halsbury’s Laws of England, Water & Waterways, vols 100 and 101, for which I was Consultant Editor, along with the expert Editor Siobhan McKeering. This made for a busy summer.
December 17, 2024
CLIMATE LITIGATION - SWISS CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CASE
The European Court of Human Rights ‘ECHR’ delivered a landmark ruling on 9 April 2024 in a climate case brought by 2,000 Swiss women, mostly in their 70s
April 15, 2024
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Telephone: +44 (0)1225 730 407