LEGAL JUSTICE AND THEIR ACTION ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL

 Symbols matter as they hold the eye giving thoughts the chance to follow. The Legal Justice does exactly that and is emotive. I love them and all those persons who try to protect what we have. In their last newsletter we have the old topic of sewage waste disposal. I say old because it has been continually happening for millions of years. Humans cause waste and getting rid of it was seen as easy by letting it go into our brooks, rivers and seas. Today apart from agricultural run-off we have privatized shareholding companies who take the consumers money and dump. It seems legal but it never can be. Big money seems to thwart decency. Just a few thoughts this morning and now Legal Justice’s action regarding human waste.

Good morning! Today we are in court seeking permission for judicial review of Ofwat's failure to regulate sewage discharges.  Also today, The Times publishes a story on the progress we have made with limiting the Woodcock shooting season. And here we give you a heads-up on the assault against the environment that seems to be being launched by the new Westminster government.

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This morning, in Court 3 of the Royal Courts of Justice, in front of Mr Justice Bourne, our legal team will be making the case that Ofwat has failed to meet their responsibilities to regulate discharges of raw sewage. Ofwat's lawyers will argue that there is no case to answer and the judge will decide, perhaps today, perhaps over the next few days, whether this should go to a full hearing at a later date.  It's fairly unusual for these decisions to be made in court rather than by a judge reading the papers from both sides in private and then making a decision, so we don't know quite what to expect.

 

We wrote to Ofwat about this matter in April and launched a crowdfunder when we filed detailed legal papers in June (see our blog for more details).

 

We are certain that we have a strong case, and we know that this subject is one that attracts considerable public attention - which is why our crowdfunder was so successful.  Thank you for getting us this far, and we hope that we can take the challenge further. Fingers crossed!