Practice
Environmental litigation
Claims where the class is defined by geography and the evidence is measured, not asserted.
4,780
Households represented
One live discharge action, 31 July 2026.
Environmental group claims turn on monitoring data. Where discharge or emissions records exist, the class can be drawn precisely and loss modelled against exposure; where they do not, the first application is usually for disclosure.
We act for residents, landowners and businesses, and we work with the community organisations already documenting the harm rather than around them.
What we do
- Water and air quality group claims
- Contaminated land and nuisance actions
- Monitoring data disclosure applications
- Exposure-based loss modelling
Regimes we use
- UKNuisance · Environmental Protection Act 1990 · CPR 19.8
- EUDirective 2004/35/EC · WAMCA
- USCERCLA · Clean Water Act citizen suits
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