The Court of Appeal has rejected a challenge to a decision of an environmental regulator, Natural Resources Wales, in which the Claimant, an Anglers Society, argued that the EU’s Environmental Liability Directive had not been properly implemented in Wales (and, by implication, England). The Directive requires defined operators to pay for the prevention, or remediation, of “environmental damage”. The judgment of Lindblom LJ is the leading authority on that crucial concept.
Tom Cross acted successfully for the Welsh Ministers, an Interested Party.
You can read the judgment here.
