Environment

01 September 2016

Issue: 7712 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court

Seiont, Gwyrfai and Llyfni Anglers’ Society v Natural Resources Wales [2016] EWCA Civ 797, [2016] All ER (D) 23 (Aug)

The Court of Appeal upheld the judge’s decision that “damage”, as defined in Art 2(2) of European Parliament and Council Directive (EC) 2004/35 was restricted to a deterioration in the environmental situation and did not include the prevention of an existing, already damaged environmental state from achieving a level which was acceptable in environmental terms or a deceleration in such achievement.

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Environment

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Fox & Partners—Nikki Edwards

Mourant—Benjamin Manchak, Jessica Vickers & Stefan Chinniah

Switalskis—Rifat Shahid, Alesha Kang & Emelia Garnett