Category: Articles
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UKELA South West and LVF Event on the Environmental Permitting Regime
By Philippa Shepherd and Sasha Anisman, Burges Salmon This blog post is reproduced from Burges Salmon’s website with their kind permission. A recording of the session is available here. Burges Salmon was delighted to host and sponsor an inaugural joint event between the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)’s South West Regional Group and Legal Voices for the Future at…
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BHP’s Liability in the Mariana Dam Disaster: Court Decision Explained
By Riley Forson – Legal Voices for the Future Stewardship Committee In November 2025, the English High Court handed down the first stage judgment in the Mariana dispute[1]. The first stage hearing dealt with the question of liability of the UK domiciled parent company alleged to be liable for the worst environmental catastrophe in Brazilian…
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🐝Why (environmental) lawyers should love wasps 🐝
By Catríona Campbell, LVF Stewardship Committee Member LVF’s inaugural book club For LVF’s inaugural book club in September, we explored books centred on insects, a group often overlooked despite their crucial role in maintaining ecosystems and their growing vulnerability to climate change (the list of books is here, and you can find details of our next…
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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change
About the Author: Ellie Stringer is a paralegal at Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP and a First-Class Law graduate from Newcastle University. Ellie has experience in litigation support, pro bono legal practice, and environmental justice advocacy, ranging from grassroots campaigning with Greenpeace to supporting climate displacement recovery efforts with Think Pacific in Fiji. (i) Introduction The…
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The New Activist Frontline?
About the Author: Alice Stephens graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Cambridge in 2023, the PGDL programme at BPP in 2025, and is currently preparing to undertake the SQE, sponsored by Macfarlanes. As anti-protest legislation intensifies, many are turning to climate litigation as a new form of activism. However, recent…
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Holding Fossil Fuel Corporations & Executives Accountable…
About the author: J Spooner works at the intersection of law, research and storytelling – helping organisations navigate complexity and communicate clearly to advance human rights, climate justice and positive systemic change. PROFIT OR CRIME SCENE? Could profits from human rights hot zones be treated as criminal property under UK law? A legal thought experiment. …
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Legal Voices for the Future at Wakelyns Agroforestry
Reflections from Harriet Hall, co-chair of the LVF Stewardship Committee On 10-11 May 2025, a group of 30 LVF members travelled to Wakelyns Agroforestry in Suffolk, for our first LVF field trip, generously hosted by David Wolfe KC and Amanda Illing. Wakelyns is a pioneering 22.5 hectare farm that combines agroforestry, food, community, research and environmental…
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Reflections on soil
By Carol Yuen, LVF Stewardship Committee Member and LLM in Environmental Law and Policy candidate at UCL, 2024/25 SOIL: The World at Our Feet, held at Somerset House, was an exhibition to unearth soil’s vital role in our planet’s future. LVF members visited together on 30 March 2025. The exhibition was an excellent combination of…
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International Women’s Day 2025 – Inspiring Women
This International Women’s Day (IWD), LVF is celebrating women around the world working hard to protect our planet. We have been inspired by so many incredible women in the climate and biodiversity space that it is impossible to showcase all those who have paved the way for us to advocate for positive change. However, we…
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