‘A High Court judge has this week quashed the Government’s Air Quality Plan 2015 over its failure to bring the UK into compliance with the law “as soon as possible”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd November 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A teenager has been summoned to court for feeding a pigeon a McDonald’s chip.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th November 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled against the Government over its failure to tackle illegal air pollution.’
The Independent, 2nd November 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A legal challenge to the government’s decision to end the climate change levy (CCL) exemption for renewable source electricity with only 24 days’ notice has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th October 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘In July 2015 the government announced that it was removing a subsidy for renewable energy. Its decision in fact was to take away the exemption that renewable source electricity enjoyed from a tax known as the climate change levy. We have covered previous episodes in the renewables saga on the UKHRB in various posts.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th October 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘UK air quality law now finds itself at a crossroads. Air quality law is a well-established area of environmental law, having been at the vanguard of much of it. It is a well-established area across multiple levels of governance, with local and national regulation in the UK operating against a backdrop of binding EU standards and an international law framework for transboundary air pollution (the 1979 Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)). This multilevel body of law highlights that air pollution is a problem that has many sources – local, transboundary, stationary, mobile, manmade, natural – which act and interact via complex pollution pathways, leading to a range of regulatory responses within and beyond jurisdictional boundaries.’
OUP Blog, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.blog.oup.com
‘A woman has been given a six month suspended prison sentence at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court for attempting to sell two tiger skin rugs illegally on eBay in 2014.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 30/09/2016
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The UK’s advertising watchdog has admitted it made the wrong decision when it banned a Greenpeace advert last year which claimed fracking would not cut energy bills.’
The Guardian, 21st September 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A dealer who tried to sell an elephant tusk at Christie’s has been spared a fine after claiming he was “misled” by their antiques experts.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Starbucks has been fined more than £160,000 after two stores in central London repeatedly left rubbish bags on a busy pavement outside of normal collection times.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th August 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Leeds waste operator has been jailed for seven years and six months for £2.2m fraud involving recycled electrical waste following an Environment Agency investigation.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th July 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A coalition of campaigning groups led by Friends of the Earth has filed an application for judicial review of North Yorkshire County Council’s recent decision to grant planning permission to a shale gas fracking project.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Anti-fracking campaigners have applied for judicial review of a council’s decision to allow use of the gas extraction technique in North Yorkshire.’
The Guardian, 7th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In R (on the application of Bancoult (No 2)) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2016] UKSC 35, the Supreme Court last week dismissed the attempt to set aside the House of Lord’s controversial 2008 decision in R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) [2008] UKHL 61. The challenge was grounded in the disclosure of documents in the parallel proceedings of Bancoult No 3 relating to the reliability of a feasibility study into the long term viability of settlement in Chagos Islands.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina (Cooper) v Ashford Borough Council: [2016] EWHC 1525 (Admin)
‘The claimant sought judicial review of the grant of planning permission by the local planning authority for four gipsy pitches and associated development at a site, on the ground, inter alia, that the local authority had erred in failing to have regard to a material consideration, namely that the grant of permission would set a precedent for the development of further gipsy and traveller sites causing cumulative harm to the semi-natural ancient woodland in the area.’
WLR Daily, 24th June 2016
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘An interesting Court of Appeal decision concerning the science of migratory salmon, and the circumstances in which compensation will be granted when an interference with Article 1 Protocol 1 is found.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd June 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘This Thursday, it will be five years since the United Nations Human Rights Council first adopted the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This post argues that while the UK has demonstrated its commitment to these principles and the protection of human rights in business, there is still room for improvement.’
RightsInfo, 13th June 2016
Source: www.rightsinfo.org
‘Popular zoo animals including raccoons and chipmunks could be banned from collections under EU rules amid concerns about them escaping and setting up home, it has been claimed.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The government spent at least £105,000 in legal costs while fighting and losing a court challenge over illegal levels of air pollution, according to data released through freedom of information rules, and now faces further bills from a new case it is contesting.’
The Guardian, 11th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Tate will come under fire again over its relationship with fossil fuel companies when it is forced to defend its refusal to disclose details of financial payments made to it by BP.’
The Guardian, 8th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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