The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency (EA) are not collecting enough data to properly tackle fly-tipping and other waste crime, a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

DLA Piper has appointed Emma Dowden-Teale as a partner to head its UK wide Contentious Public Law team, that sits within the firm's wider Litigation and Regulatory practice.

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council has been ordered to pay more than £11,000 in fines and costs after admitting that it carried out works without obtaining a marine licence from the Marine Management Organisation.

A Neath man received custodial sentences totalling 24 months at Swansea Crown Court last week, in connection with a fraudulent attempt to claim a £25,000 Covid grant aimed at helping businesses stay afloat during lockdown.

The cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee has expressed "concerns" over Parliament's inability to properly scrutinise and amend emergency provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020 over the last two years.

Husband and wife landlords whose tenants had to live with no heating, broken fire safety equipment and raw sewage outside their Northwood property have been ordered to pay £27,000.

A joint prosecution by three councils has seen a serial fly-tipper sentenced to 21 months in prison and his van seized.

A Leeds resident has been sentenced to a 15-month custodial sentence after pleading guilty to six counts of fly-tipping and one duty of care offence at Leeds Crown Court.

A school has been fined £30,000 after a group of pupils had to be rescued by Keswick Mountain Rescue Team from Helvellyn in the Lake District after becoming stranded in winter conditions.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham breached the 'Home Standard' and, as a consequence, there was the potential for serious detriment to its tenants, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has found following a self-referral by the council.

A local resident who failed to address the amount of rubbish and items in his overgrown garden has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 in a fine and costs, following a prosecution brought by Bromley Council.

The Supreme Court has refused the family of a five-year-old boy permission to appeal in a dispute over the Environment Agency’s regulation of a landfill site near his home, saying that the application “does not raise an arguable point of law in the context of this case”.

Winchester City Council has successfully prosecuted the owner of a mobile home park following reports of harassment and failure the keep the land in a suitable condition for residents.

A Natural Resources Wales (NRW) prosecution has seen a bakery fined for polluting a stream with its dishwasher.

Richard Heller, an established figure in trading standards and food safety work, has joined leading set of chambers, 2 Hare Court.

The Leader of North Northamptonshire has issued a second statement in a bid to clarify its decision to pay £4m to a publican who alleged abuse of process in a food safety case brought against him by East Northamptonshire District Council more than 20 years ago, and to defend a former chief executive.

The maximum 6-month prison sentence that can currently be handed out by Magistrates is to be doubled to a year, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has announced.

A declaration by a High Court judge, which required the Environment Agency to achieve prescribed outcomes within a prescribed timetable in relation to a landfill site, went beyond the scope of the court's functions in dealing with a claim that the regulator was acting incompatibly with the Convention rights of a five-year-old boy with serious health problems, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The Welsh Government intends to implement the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 on 15 July, Climate Change Minister Julie James has confirmed.

An unlicensed puppy trader has been ordered to pay £100,000 for placing misleading adverts, following a prosecution prepared and presented by Telford and Wrekin Council’s legal services department.

A couple who illegally bred dogs have been ordered to pay more than £450,000 following a successful prosecution by Vale of Glamorgan Council.

North Northamptonshire Council has agreed to pay "substantial damages" to a publican who alleged abuse of process in a food safety case brought against him by a predecessor authority more than 20 years ago.

The Court of Appeal has allowed the Environment Agency’s appeal in a claim brought by a five-year-old boy with a chronic and serious respiratory condition who lives near a landfill site.

The owner of an independent cinema in Swansea has admitted to being in contempt of court after a dispute over Covid passports.

The Crown Prosecution Service has withdrawn a case against a Christian pastor who was fined £16,000 for holding a church service for the homeless during the third national lockdown.

A cinema at the centre of a dispute surrounding Covid-19 vaccination passports has had its shutters bolted shut by Swansea Council after refusing to heed a closure order.

Tenants in the private rented sector are suffering from poor safety standards due to ineffective regulation and enforcement from local authorities and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

A pair of landlords have been fined £187,000 over their failure to license houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), after a four-year legal battle with Waltham Forest Council including two judicial reviews.