Working closely with the environmental assessment practitioner and specialist consultants, we manage the application process to ensure legal compliance, avoid delays and successfully defend any appeals to ensure a favourable and legally defensible record of decision. We also represent clients who stand to be affected by a development in opposing the applications for authorisation and appealing any unfavourable decisions.
Environmental liability is strict and the environmental laws are framed widely enough to hold companies, parent companies, lenders and even directors and officers responsible for environmental degradation and pollution. We offer specialist advice on all areas of environmental legal compliance and assist our clients in meeting their statutory and corporate governance obligations.