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NLJ this week: It’s rubbish—how current law fails to stop fly-tippers

05 May 2023
Issue: 8023 / Categories: Legal News , Public
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Government statistics on fly-tipping (more than a million reported incidents per year) ‘make unedifying reading’, writes Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, in this week’s NLJ. But is the law doing anything to curb this disgusting British habit?

Parpworth details the scale and extent of the problem, and covers the enforcement action taken by local authorities (investigations, fixed penalty notices and, albeit very rarely, injunctions). He goes on to look at central government proposals to curb the problem. What is the best approach? 

Read more on the fly-tipping scourge here.

Issue: 8023 / Categories: Legal News , Public
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