Henderson Chambers is undoubtedly in a league of its own.

Chambers and Partners

A significant number of members have experience acting on behalf of firms operating in the waste management sector.

Recent cases undertaken by barristers at Henderson Chambers include the following:

Health and safety

Represented the defendant waste management company in a prosecution arising out of a fatality

• Advising company in respect of the HSE and Police investigation following a fatality during the construction of a sewage treatment plant in Leeds
• Defending the company which operates at the Brookwood Cemetery in a trial for breach of environmental health legislation including the depositing of waste without a licence
• Seminal cases, such as Cambridge Water, various cases involving the alleged contamination of agricultural lands by chemicals, sewage and airborne dioxins, contamination of industrial and domestic water supplies, large-scale workplace contamination by asbestos and by industrial chemicals
• Application of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control regime to the activities of sewerage undertakers United Utilities v Environment Agency
• Acting on behalf of an international oil trader following the dumping of waste in Abidjan in the Ivory coast

Property

• Acting in nuisance claims involving waste disposal sites
• Acting in access disputes relating to waste disposal sites