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Environmental regulation
Service overview
Best practice, for your business.
Regulatory scrutiny can have far-reaching ramifications for your business, your reputation, and your future plans. We’ll help you find a way forward – on the right side of the lines.
When it comes to environmental compliance and inquests, prevention is always better than cure.
We provide strategic advice and robust defence across health and safety, environmental, and associated regulatory matters. From ensuring your compliance with environmental regulations to navigating appeals, we’ll provide tailored support that meets you where you are – and moves with you every step of the way.
Ready to take the next step?
Our services
How we can help you:
- Assistance with / advising on applications for environmental permits and exemptions, including transfers and surrender
- Compliance with all aspects of environmental law, including the environmental permitting regime
- Proactive health and safety advice as per client requirements; ad-hoc or project-specific
- Tailored training for boards, directors and employees – covering all aspects of regulatory compliance, including crisis management following a workplace accident
- Tailored training to boards and directors on all aspects of environmental regulation
- Dealing with regulators: Crown Prosecution Service; DEFRA; Environment agency; Health and safety executive; Local authority; Police; Water authorities
- Conducting an internal investigation following an incident (pollution and/or alleged breach), enabling our clients to (a) assess exposure whilst (b) benefit from the protection of legal professional privilege
- Conducting internal investigations following workplace accidents, enabling our clients to (a) assess exposure whilst (b) benefiting from the protection of legal professional privilege
- Advising on and/or preparing written submissions
- Advising upon and representing at interviews under caution
- Advising upon/appealing enforcement notices, improvement, and prohibition notices), including revocation/suspension of environmental permits
- Criminal/regulatory investigation
- Crisis management in the immediate aftermath of an incident
- Defending prosecutions whether in the magistrates or crown courts
- Enforcement notices (improvement and prohibition notices)
- Fees for intervention
- RIDDOR reporting
- Support throughout criminal/regulatory investigations
- Supporting individuals (including, but not limited to directors, managers and employees)
- Inquests - all types
- Supporting individuals (including, but not limited to directors, managers and employees)
- Defending breach of abatement notice prosecutions
- Proactive advice on minimising statutory nuisance determinations
- Support throughout local authority investigations
What to expect from us
The right legal experts, wherever you are.
Regional teams, nationally connected – we move quickly, stay close, and bring the right specialists together around you.
When it matters most, you need experience in the room. Our structure gives senior advisers more time with clients. So relationships are built over years, not handed off after day one.
Our specialists in your region are backed by a nationwide network. So, whatever comes up, you get the right experts without having to change advisers.
We’re based in the regions where you operate. So you work with advisers who understand you and are there in person when you need them.
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