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Government announces tough new late payment laws – what happens next?
Christopher Perrin
6 December 2021
Are builders ‘gaming the system’ to flout fire safety legislation?
Last week Assistant Commissioner Fire Safety, Paul Jennings of the London Fire Brigade stated that developers are ‘gaming the system’, looking to reach only the minimum standards required for building safety and ‘bending the rules’. AC Jennings explained that we are not seeing the cultural change within the built environment that we would expect, following the tragic events of the Grenfell Tower fire and the subsequent Hackitt review.
20 October 2021
Environmental Law Quarterly Update - Q3 2021
This quarterly environmental law update provides a summary of a cross-section of news stories in the period July 2021 - September 2021.
12 August 2021
Vue Cinema Chain fined following death of cinema-goer
On 20 July 2021 Vue Entertainment Ltd (‘Vue’) was fined £750,000 and ordered to pay costs of £130,000 following a fatal accident at the Star City cinema in Birmingham on 9 March 2018.
23 July 2021
Record fine of £90 million for Southern Water
On 9 July 2021 Southern Water Services Ltd (SWS) was fined £90 million, to be paid out of company operating profits, in what was the largest fine ever imposed on a water company.
22 July 2021
Environmental Law Quarterly Update - Q2 2021
This quarterly environmental law update provides a summary of a cross-section of news stories in the period April 2021 - June 2021.
