R (Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd) v Environment Agency

Subject Matter

ENVIRONMENT — Protection — Environmental permit — Regulator issuing compliance assessment reports recording claimant’s breach of environmental permit and increasing subsistence payment payable — Whether report “regulatory decision” within regulatory code — Whether regulator required to consider providing appeal on merits by independent decision-maker — Whether common law duty of fairness imposing right to pursue appeal on merits — Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c 51), s 22 — Regulators’ Code 2014, para 2.3

[2023] EWHC 3012 (Admin); [2024] PTSR 533; [2023] WLR(D) 497, KBD

Commentary

Local Government Lawyer
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