Environment
UK Guide 2025 : The North
Band 3
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(0113) 283 2500About
Provided by Walker Morris LLP
Our Environment Team is unique in its ability to advise across the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious, civil and criminal environmental matters.
We work across all sectors and we offer our clients in-house advocacy of the highest calibre.
We’re proud of the reputation we’ve built – and our clients appreciate that we can support them through all their environmental law requirements: from due diligence right through to defending the most serious of prosecutions and representing them in the highest Courts.
We work collaboratively, with experts from our Corporate, Real Estate, Commercial and Banking & Finance teams, providing environmental advice on a variety of complex and high value deals.
Our lawyers are experienced in all aspects of environmental law and we’re always making sure we’re up to date on the latest developments at a national level, as well as advising on the complexity of European law in the context of Brexit. This helps us to anticipate what you may need in the future, so that we can help you prepare and adapt your business to comply with new legislation.
We work with clients from major developers, minerals, waste, energy and chemical businesses, other industrialists, manufacturers, landowners, statutory undertakers and planning authorities, covering a variety of sectors.
Chambers Review
Walker Morris's environment group attracts both contentious and non-contentious work from an impressively diverse client base. The team has notable expertise in the renewables and waste sectors. It is recommended for assisting with Environment Agency investigations concerning pollution of watercourses and breaches of environmental permitting regulations, as well as offering in-depth environmental due diligence for corporate and real estate transactions.
Stuart Ponting and Richard Sagar co-lead the firm's environmental practice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Walker Morris provides fantastic support. It provides thorough and detailed responses irrespective of the type of concern."
"Walker Morris provides brilliant service."
"Walker Morris provides fantastic support. It provides thorough and detailed responses irrespective of the type of concern."
"Walker Morris provides brilliant service."