‘Fishing for Answers’: An Anglers’ Society Challenges the Scope of ‘Environmental Damage’: R (on the application of Seiont, Gwyrfai and Llyfni Anglers’ Society) v Natural Resources Wales and others [2015] EWHC 3578 (Admin)

Thomas L. Muinzer* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

This analysis addresses an important case that has recently come before the Administrative Court,1 compelling it to address for the first time important aspects of the scope of ‘environmental damage’. Most particularly, in dismissing an anglers’ society’s application for judicial review, it was held that the definition of ‘damage’ under the Environmental Liability Directive does concern the deterioration of a given environmental situation; however; this definition will not extend to also encompass the prevention of an already damaged environmental situation from recovering to acceptable levels. Nor will it encompass a damaged environmental situation’s deceleration in achieving those acceptable levels.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)301-308
Number of pages8
JournalEnvironmental Law Review
Volume18
Issue number4
Early online date8 Dec 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2016

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Funding
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Keywords

  • environmental damage
  • environmental liability
  • sites of special scientific interest

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