Articles Health & Safety 19th Mar 2014

Sentencing Guidance for Environmental Offences

On 26 February the Sentencing Council published new sentencing guidelines for a wide range of environmental offences. The Definitive Guideline provides a new tariff-based method of sentencing which has not previously been used in sentencing for environmental offences. The guidelines can be found on the Sentencing Council website.

Please see Alerter written by Oliver Campbell and James Purnell.

Oliver and James are, respectively, the Head and Secretary of the Health, Safety & Environment practice group at Henderson Chambers