Environmental Impact Assessment: The new multi-stage EIA and other elephant traps
The seminar will look at:
- the recent ECJ decisions of Barker and Commission v UK and their implications for current practice on outline planning permission and reserved matters applications
- elephant traps on screening and the adequacy of the environmental statement
- future pitfalls including alternatives, EIA and pollution control consents and local authority enforcement.
Justine Thornton is a barrister specializing in environmental and planning law and related fields of public, commercial, insolvency, local government, human rights, health and safety and EC and international law.
Prior to joining 39 Essex Street, she worked for Allen & Overy LLP, Simmons & Simmons and the European Commission. She was appointed to advise the Government on agriculture, environment and biotechnology (1999 – 2005). Publications include Sweet and Maxwell textbook on environmental law (first and second editions) and "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004", Law Society Legislation Guides. She is co-General Editor of the Sweet and Maxwell Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law.
Richard Wald specializes in all aspects of Planning, Environmental, Local Government, Highways and Administrative Law. He is the co-author of Butterworth’s Highways Law and Practice (2002), and the General Editor of Sweet and Maxwell’s Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law. In 2001 he was appointed to the Attorney General's C-Panel of prosecution counsel. He is ranked by Planning Magazine as one of the UK’s top planning senior junior barristers. He is also ranked by Chambers and Partners.
Date: Wednesday 19th July 2006
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