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The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
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In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
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The Sizewell C new nuclear power station at Sizewell in East Suffolk is one of the single most important energy infrastructure projects in the UK for a generation.
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This Pupillage Open Evening will provide a great opportunity to learn about careers at the planning and environmental Bar and more generally, practice at FTB and the pupillage recruitment process.
Does the court have the power to grant an injunction which binds unidentified people at the time when the order is granted who do not present any risk at the time of the injunction order but may do in the future? If the Court grants alternative service provisions, does the Claimant have to prove actual knowledge in an application for committal?
Confirmed speakers: David Matthias KC Morag Ellis KC, Craig Howell Williams KC, Emyr Jones, Annabel Graham Paul, Charles Merrett, Esther Drabkin-Reiter, Mark O'Brien O'Reilly, Dr Charles Mynors.
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Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
This morning, 29 November 2023, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Wolverhampton City Council & Ors (Respondents) v London Gypsies and Travellers & Ors (Appellants) [2023] UKSC 47 (which was known as Barking & Dagenham in the High Court and Court of Appeal).
The Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero has confirmed the National Gas Transmission Plc (Western Gas Network Project) Compulsory Purchase Order 2022 (“the Order”), which was made under section 9 of and Schedule 3 to the Gas Act 1986 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, following an inquiry held in May 2023.
