Regulatory

Who we are 

Our Regulatory team supports businesses, directors, and senior management across a wide range of complex compliance and enforcement issues. From environmental investigations to health and safety prosecutions, we provide clear, pragmatic advice that helps clients manage risk, respond effectively to investigations, and stay ahead of regulatory change. 

What we do 

The firm advises on a full range of matters, such as: 

Environment

• Matters involving the Environment Agency and local authorities, advising on issues such as: 
  • environmental permitting
  • statutory nuisance
  • contaminated land
  • waste regulation
• Planning enforcement, including: 
  • judicial reviews
  • CPO
  • heritage protections such as listed building requirements
  • TPOs

Health and Safety

• Health and safety investigations including:  
  • Prosecutions by HSE of local authorities
  • corporate manslaughter
  • Improvement and prohibition notice appeals
  • fire safety cases
• Representing individuals and businesses at inquests and during interviews under caution
• Advising on trading standards and consumer protection, including: 
  • food safety
  • product misdescription/mis-selling
  • product safety and recalls

We can also advise on other areas of regulatory law, particularly consumer-facing ones such as competition investigations.   

With the regulatory landscape constantly evolving, particularly in areas like fire safety post-Grenfell, we help clients understand their obligations at every stage. 

Business risk and compliance

• Responding to investigations 
• Supporting businesses in proactively managing compliance 
• Developing robust policies and training programmes. We can also assist clients with: 
  • data protection enforcement/complaints
  • anti-money laundering
  • fraud prevention

Examples of the team’s recent and previous experience 

• Acting for a large international logistics company to represent them during an investigation and prosecution brought by the EA and HSE.
• Representing a waste company in relation to an ongoing Environment Agency (EA) investigation.
• Acting for a company in the travel sector to appeal against revocation of the company’s licence to operate.   
• Advising on an application for   variation of an environmental permit.
• Acting for a property management company in respect of a fire enforcement notice and a noise abatement notice served on them.  
• Advising on regulatory issues arising in corporate and property transactions.