Summary: Environmental offences (whether causing pollution, threatening to cause pollution, breach of a local authority licence or permit, or breach of an IPC or IPPC licence) may be committed by a range of people from a body corporate to an individual manager and the ensuing liabilities can be civil, criminal or both. Claims can be (1) constitutional; (2) statutory (Irish and European); and (3) common law based. I propose in this paper to deal with these liabilities in the environmental context and also to highlight some landmark cases and what is coming down the track in the future.
European Energy and Environmental Law Review