It was great to make a first visit to Accra and Ghana in mid April 2025 to contribute to a workshop on nuclear liability as part of the European Commission programme in support of Ghana’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, led by friends and colleagues from Vienna. I did sessions on nuclear liability, and on nuclear transport.
From 28 to 30 January 2025 the UK and the EU were in an arbitration hearing in the Hague. The hearing concerned the UK and Scottish governments’ decision to ban sandeel fishing in certain areas of the Dogger Bank
On 30 January 2025 the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights handed down a judgement in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy.
In the late 1990s, while undertaking a Harkness Fellowship in the USA and working on a book on ‘Making Environmental Laws Work’, I visited Silicon Valley to talk to some of the company managers there about environmental regulation and the US computer industry.
A new report published on 22 July 2021 outlines the scale of illegal waste activity in England. The report “An independent Study into Fly-tipping and Unregistered Waste Carriers in England” was carried out by Air & Space Evidence and EPR, and commissioned by Material Focus, the not-for-profit behind the Recycle Your Electricals campaign. I was one of a number of reviewers taken from academia, the waste industry and former Government and regulatory officials.
Great to present a first Training Workshop on this for Prospect Law on 16 July 2021. It covered –
Climate science
Key provisions of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Countries’ NDC commitments
The Green Recovery
The Energy Transition
COP26 itself
Changing frameworks of financial regulation
New laws, regulation, financing
Recent climate litigation; and
The impact of each of these on business.
For further information or inquires about this climate training, feel free to contact William Wilson at <wew@prospectlaw.co.uk>
On 9 July 2021, Southern Water entered 51 guilty pleas to charges of making unpermitted discharges or untreated sewage along the southern coast of England. The charges covered 6,971 unpermitted discharges, some 61,704 hours or a total of 7 years worth of discharges of millions of gallons over the five years from 2010 to 2015.
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The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures is becoming increasingly influential, having been taken forward by insurers, applied as a requirement to the assets of pension funds, and its principles are due to be applied as a requirement to all listed companies in the UK next year. Importantly, it is an approach to influencing financial disclosures that is increasingly accepted internationally. In this further update, we set out a short note on two important recent reports.
