Chicken factory probe ordered by health secretary – BBC News
‘An investigation into allegations of hygiene failings at poultry processing factories has been ordered by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.’
BBC News, 25th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: environmental health
Protest over jailed pigeon feeder from Morecambe – BBC News
‘A protest has been held in support of a man jailed for continuing to feed pigeons in a Lancashire seaside town contrary to a community order.’
BBC News, 31st May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Badger cull injunction breach case dropped – BBC News
‘The case against the only person accused of breaching last year’s badger cull injunction has been dropped.’
BBC News, 29th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The latest challenge to the badger cull extension – UK Human Rights Blog
‘A new challenge was filed yesterday to the badger cull extension presently under way in the South West of England.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Why Mrs Litvinenko did not get her PCO – but what if it had been an environmental claim? – UK Human Rights Blog
“An extraordinary story which would have raised our eyebrows at its implausibility had it come from our spy novelists. In late 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by polonium-210 given to him in London. He was an ex-Russian Federation FSB agent, but by then was a UK citizen. He had accused Putin of the murder of the journalist Anna Politovskaya. He may or may not have been working for MI6 at the time of his death. The prime suspects for the killing are in Russia, not willing to help the UK with its inquiries. But rightly, in one form or another, we want to know what really happened.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Who “holds” the working papers of the Climategate inquiry? – UK Human Rights Blog
“In 2009 someone hacked into e-mails belonging to the Climate Research Unit at UEA and leaked them widely. Climate change sceptics whooped with delight because they thought that the e-mails showed attempts to suppress or gerrymander climate data (see e.g. this example from James Delingpole with some of the ticklish e-mails, and for more background, less tendentiously put, my post on an earlier UEA case). And the CRU data was important; it had made its way into the highly influential IPCC reports.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th May 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Serious offenders could face bigger penalties under new environmental sentencing proposals – Sentencing Council
“New proposals for how environmental offenders like fly-tippers should be sentenced have been launched today by the Sentencing Council.”
Sentencing Council, 14th March 2013
Noisy neighbours may be protected by new law to stop council snooping – The Guardian
“A new law to stop councils using counter-terrorism powers to snoop on people is thwarting efforts to tackle noisy neighbours, according to environmental health experts.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Badger Trust) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – WLR Daily
“Section 10(2)(a) of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 empowered the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to proceed with a policy involving a grant of licences, whereby farmers and landowners, in areas said to be the worst affected by bovine tuberculosis in England, would be allowed to carry out controlled culling of badgers.”
WLR Daily, 11th September 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
MPs reject government plans for pilot badger cull – BBC News
“MPs have voted against the government’s policy of culling badgers in two pilot schemes in England.”
BBC News, 25th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Badger cull under threat from last-minute legal challenge – The Guardian
“A last-minute legal challenge has dealt a fresh blow to the government’s increasingly troubled cull of badgers in England, the Observer has learned.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Demolition and construction of sports pavilion does not require EIA screening opinion, says High Court judge – OUT-LAW.com
“The demolition of an existing sports pavilion and the construction of a new one is not an urban development project and does not require a screening opinion to determine if an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is needed, a High Court judge has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
All about killing badgers – UK Human Rights Blog
“It is impossible to drive through the narrow and high-hedged lanes of Herefordshire without coming across the sad and inevitable outcome of car meeting badger. One estimate is that we may lose as many as 50,000 badgers a year this way. But this case is about whether we should kill a lot more badgers – deliberately.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Pioneer Hi Bred Italia Srl v Ministero delle Politiche agricole alimentari e forestali – WLR Daily
“The cultivation of genetically modified organisms such as the MON 810 maize varieties could not be made subject to a national authorisation procedure when the use and marketing of those varieties were authorised pursuant to article 20 of Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed and where those varieties had been accepted for inclusion in the common catalogue provided for in Council Directive 2002/53/EC of 13 June 2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species as amended by Regulation No 1829/2003.”
WLR Daily, 6th September 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
A tinge of green in our Bill of Rights? – UK Human Rights Blog
“Amidst the root and branch opposition to socio-economic rights from some quarters, the idea that the Bill of Rights might contain an environmental right seems to have got lost in the smoke of this rather unedifying battle. The July 2012 Consultation on a Bill of Rights summarises the rival contentions well.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Court to force clean up of UK’s air pollution – The Independent
“The Government faces a Supreme Court action this week demanding that it slash air pollution levels by 2015. Lawyers acting for the environmental charity ClientEarth are making a legal challenge to force the coalition to cut levels of lethal nitrogen dioxide (NO2) to within European Commission limits.”
The Independent, 15th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Does a risk of an explosion engage Article 8? – UK Human Rights Blog
“This Strasbourg decision is the end of a long saga. Our applicants Hardy and Maile lived near proposed Liquified Natural Gas terminals at Milford Haven. In 2003 and 2004, an oil refiner obtained various consents to enable the LNG to be imported, and the applicants challenged them in the domestic courts. But the image, and the identity of its participants, will tell you that the LNG started to arrive. But Alison Hardy and Rodney Maile were not easily deflected, and after a long battle through the domestic courts ended up in the Strasbourg Court.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Mega pig-farm could breach human rights, council warned – The Guardian
“Controversial plans to build a US-style mega pig-farm in South Derbyshire close to a prison and residential housing pose serious health risks to those living and working there and could breach their legal rights to protection of their private and family life, the local council is being warned.”
The Guardian, 10th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
List of specialist regulatory advocates in health and safety and environmental law and appointment of Standing Counsel (Unified List) – The Bar Council
“In November, it was announced that the Attorney General had agreed that the Unified List in its current form should draw to a close and that new arrangements would be taken forward by individual departments rather than under the auspices of the Attorney General’s office. On 31 March 2012 the Attorney General’s Unified List of Prosecuting Advocates will come to an end. The Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency and Office of Rail Regulation wish to appoint a list of advocates to conduct their higher court prosecution work and other regulatory advocacy. HSE and ORR also each wish to appoint two Standing Counsel.”
The Bar Council, 8th February 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Thousands of officials should lose right to enter your home without a warrant, peers say – Daily Telegraph
“Thousands of ‘faceless’ officials should lose the right to gain entry to people’s homes without a warrant, under legal changes demanded by the House of Lords tonight.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
