NUISANCE – WASTE – ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
Gordon offers expert advice assisting companies, individuals, and solicitors with complex issues arising out of these and related aspects of environmental law:
GUIDES TO THE LAW OF NUISANCE
The principle aim of this site is to explain how the modern law of nuisance can best be understood and utilised.
WASTE
Waste offers opportunities, but at the cost of regulatory complexity. These summaries provide a readable approach to topics with an international flavour.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING LAW
These guides provide a comprehensible approach to this EU-driven regulatory scheme and to key legal issues.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
This site also takes a look at other areas of interest, including core pollution and waste offences and remediation schemes.
- Waste & Recycling
- Environmental Permitting
- Noise, Odour, Dust, and other nuisances
- Flood, Coast, and Drainage
- Group Litigation
- Climate Change
Welcome to Wiglaw the information and reference site supporting Gordon Wignall.
This site shares a wide range of information gained from more than 30 years of experience providing specialist advice to clients in the areas of environmental, nuisance and waste law. It includes guides and reference material aimed at supporting those who need a little more insight into areas where they may require help.
GUIDES TO THE LAW OF NUISANCE
Private nuisance
A set of themes classified in four ways: strict liability, ‘sensible discomfort’, ‘measured duty of care’ and ‘encroachment’.
Property damage
Hazardous and dangerous and acts connected with the use of land: private nuisance and strict liability have little room for “reasonableness”.
‘Plagues of Egypt’
Fumes, noise, dust, smoke and other forms of ‘sensible discomfort’: today’s nuisance laws derived from the time of the industrial revolution.
The ‘Leakey’ duty
The measured duty of care to take reasonable steps to avoid harm: continuing or adopting a hazard and the increasing role of negligence.
Public nuisance
Personal injury, highway obstruction and environmental health constitute these civil and criminal cases. They have little connection with private nuisance.
Statutory nuisance
The statutory nuisance regime requires local authorities to act on behalf of residents where there are both public and private nuisances.
Section 82
Section 82 allows residents to run their own statutory nuisance cases. This can be highly effective. Costs and expenses are recoverable.
Flooding and water
Liability for flooding has been checked by some important defences likely to be explored further by the courts in a time of unpredictable weather events.
Subsidence and trees
Liability for cracking caused by tree roots and differential movement to properties has brought about a self-contained body of law.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING REGULATIONS
Environmental Permitting
Permitting in plain English: how the regulations work, authorisation (grant), termination and insolvency.
Regulators’ powers and enforcement
Variation, enforcement, suspension, criminal offences and other regulatory powers.
Appeals and legal challenges
Statutory appeals, High Court challenges and injunctions: how to keep your business on its feet.
WASTE
Transboundary waste
Waste shipments and the Basel Convention: the net is tightening. Post-‘Brexit’, EU and UK law will remain closely aligned.
Waste ships
Ship decommissioning: Basel and Hong Kong conventions and EU and UK laws; approved shipyards.
End of waste
Little practical guidance is available from the UK legislature in this area of ‘green’ commercial opportunity
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
Coastal erosion
Can property owners on the coast use statute or common law to alleviate the dangers of coastal erosion?
Pollution offences
Key criminal offences, landowners and landfill tax. What powers do Regulators have to prevent and remediate pollution?
Business disruption
Business interruption insurance: Covid-19 and key Court guidance – the FCA’s recent test case.
NUISANCE
WASTE
ENVIRONMENTAL
PERMITTING
Gordon Wignall
GUIDES TO THE LAW OF NUISANCE
Flooding, inadequate dredging and polluted oyster beds have all been the subject of successful nuisance claims. The aim of this site is to explain how the modern law of nuisance can best be understood and utilised.
WASTE
Waste offers opportunities but regulatory complexity. These summaries provide a readable approach to topics with an international flavour.
GUIDES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
These guides provide the reader with the narrative account necessary to understand how these technical EU-derived regulations should be interpreted and to assess the legal challenges which may be available.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
This site also takes a look at other areas of interest, including core pollution remediation schemes and associated waste offences.
NUISANCE LAW GUIDES
Private nuisance
Private nuisance is a set of themes to be classified in three ways: strict liability, ‘sensible discomfort’ and under the ‘measured duty of care’.
Property damage
Hazardous and dangerous and acts connected with the use of land: private nuisance and strict liability have little room for “reasonableness”.
Plagues of Egypt
Fumes, noise, dust, smoke and other forms of ‘sensible discomfort’: today’s nuisance laws derived from the time of the industrial revolution.
The ‘Leakey’ duty
The measured duty of care to take reasonable steps to avoid harm: continuing or adopting a hazard and the increasing role of negligence.
Public nuisance
Personal injury, highway obstruction and environmental health constitute these civil and criminal cases. They have little connection with private nuisance.
Statutory nuisance
The statutory nuisance regime requires local authorities to act on behalf of residents where there are both public and private nuisances.
Section 82
Section 82 allows residents to run their own statutory nuisance cases. This can be highly effective. Costs and expenses are recoverable.
Flooding and water
Liability for flooding has been checked by some important defences likely to be explored further by the courts in a time of unpredictable weather events.
Subsidence and trees
Liability for cracking caused by tree roots and differential movement to properties has brought about a self-contained body of law.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
Environmental permitting
Permitting in plain English: how the regulations work, authorisation (grant), termination and insolvency.
Regulators powers and enforcement
Variation, enforcement, suspension, criminal offences and other regulatory powers.
Appeals and legal challenges
Statutory appeals, High Court challenges and injunctions: how to keep your business on its feet.
WASTE
Transboundary ships
Waste shipments and the Basel Convention, EU and UK law: the net is tightening. Post-‘Brexit’, EU and UK law will remain closely aligned.
Waste ships
Ship decommissioning: Basel and Hong Kong conventions and EU and UK laws; approved shipyards.
End of waste
Little practical guidance is available from the UK legislature in this area of ‘green’ commercial opportunity
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
Coastal erosion
Can property owners on the coast use statute or common law to alleviate the dangers of coastal erosion?
Pollution offences
Key criminal offences, landowners and landfill tax. What powers do Regulators have to prevent and remediate pollution?
Business disruption
Business interruption insurance: Covid-19 and key Court guidance – the FCA’s recent test case.
NUISANCE – WASTE – ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
Gordon Wignall
GUIDES TO THE LAW OF NUISANCE
Flooding, inadequate dredging and polluted oyster beds have all been the subject of successful nuisance claims. The aim of this site is to explain how the modern law of nuisance can best be understood and utilised.
WASTE
Waste offers opportunities but regulatory complexity. These summaries provide a readable approach to topics with an international flavour.
GUIDES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
These guides provide the reader with the narrative account necessary to understand how these technical EU-derived regulations should be interpreted and to assess the legal challenges which may be available.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
This site also takes a look at other areas of interest, including core pollution remediation schemes and associated waste offences.
NUISANCE LAW GUIDES
Private nuisance
Private nuisance is a set of themes to be classified in three ways: strict liability, ‘sensible discomfort’ and under the ‘measured duty of care’.
Property damage
Hazardous and dangerous and acts connected with the use of land: private nuisance and strict liability has little room for “reasonableness”.
Plagues of Egypt
Fumes, noise, dust, smoke and other forms of ‘sensible discomfort’: today’s nuisance laws derived from the time of the industrial revolution.
The ‘Leakey’ duty
The measured duty of care to take reasonable steps to avoid harm: continuing or adopting a hazard and the increasing role of negligence.
Public nuisance
Personal injury, highway obstruction and environmental health constitute these civil and criminal cases. They have little connection with private nuisance.
Statutory nuisance
The statutory nuisance regime requires local authorities to act on behalf of residents where there are both public and private nuisances.
Section 82
Section 82 allows residents to run their own statutory nuisance cases. This can be highly effective and costs and expenses are recoverable.
Flooding and water
Liability for flooding has been checked by some important defences likely to be explored further in a time of unpredictable weather events.
Subsidence and trees
Liability for cracking caused by unchecked tree roots and differential movement to properties has brought about a self-contained body of law.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
Environmental permitting
Permitting in plain English: how the regulations work, authorisation (grant) and termination.
Regulators powers and enforcement
Variation, enforcement, suspension, criminal offences and other regulatory powers.
Appeals and legal challenges
Statutory appeals, High Court challenges and injunctions: how to keep your business on its feet.
WASTE
Transboundary ships
Waste shipments and the Basel Convention, EU and UK law: the net is tightening. Post-‘Brexit’, EU and UK law will remain closely aligned.
Waste ships
Ship decommissioning: Basel and Hong Kong conventions and EU and UK laws; approved shipyards.
End of waste
Little practical guidance is available from the UK legislature in this area of ‘green’ commercial opportunity
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
Coastal erosion
Can property owners on the coast use statute or common law to alleviate the dangers of coastal erosion?
Pollution offences
Key criminal offences, landowners and landfill tax. What powers do Regulators have to prevent and remediate pollution?
Business disruption
Business interruption insurance: Covid-19 and key Court guidance – the FCA’s recent test case.