Environment & Energy

Both leading challenges to the Government’s failure to comply with their obligations Secretary of State had failed to comply with obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008.

Ofgem was entitled to require a site inspection and was not under an absolute duty to grant accreditation under the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme simply because the application had been properly made and the plant met the eligibility criteria.

The first post-Brexit subsidy control judicial review to reach the Court of Appeal, concerning a multi-billion pound subsidy of the sale of a retail energy supply business.

The Privy Council confirmed a modern, liberalised approach to standing in environmental claims in Mauritius and other common law jurisdictions.

Dispute under NAFTA and the ICSID Convention about Mexico’s refusal to permit seabed-mining in Mexico.

High-profile case concerning whether the Environment Agency was failing to properly regulate agricultural pollution of the River Wye.

Three joined cases about related schemes to develop the A47, raising important issues under the EIA Regulations about the assessment of cumulative carbon emissions arising from the three schemes together.

Innovative claim before the CJEU, alleging that the rules on forest biomass fail to meet minimum thresholds of environmental protection set out in the parent legislation.

Supreme Court case on the third runway at Heathrow.

A dispute under a bilateral investment treaty and the ICSID Convention relating to oil and gas exploration rights in north-eastern Slovakia.