Bond Pearce

Our environmental team's expertise lies in the fields of environmental liabilities, contaminated land, environmental assessment and nature conservation, waste and environmental compliance and risk management.  Our approach to provide proactive and practical advice which focuses upon the importance of working closely with clients to know their businesses and working with them on compliance, sustainability, the continual improvement of environmental standards and protecting brand reputation.

As part of this we developed a bespoke web-based environmental law compliance resource, which can be combined with the team's critical incident policies, provides a means of minimising risks, planning for compliance investment, protecting brand reputation and, increasingly, supporting sustainable business objectives: environmental law in its manifest forms is a force for change in business practices. 

Our Work

• Competent Authority (Health and Safety Executive & Environment Agency): advising on the investigation from its outset, progressed the case through to prosecution of five companies subsequent to the Buncefield Oil Terminal explosion.  In July 2010, a total of £9.4 million in fines and costs was imposed on the five defendant companies following an 8 week trial.  The team's role in managing the case was recognised as a significant factor in the Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency being awarded the Attorney General's Prosecution Team of the Year
• Smiths (Gloucester) Limited, Smiths (Quarry Operations) Limited and Alan Smith.  EA prosecution against two companies and an individual director relating to volume of inert material imported into quarry as part of restoration scheme. The case involved advising on Environmental Protection Act 1990, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, conditions and exemptions of Environmental Permit and terms of planning consent