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Andrew Waite

Andrew is widely experienced in Environmental Law, with a substantial practice in the area of contaminated land, waste management, water, noise and pollution control law, as well as nature conservation issues and environmental liabilities.

He is a former Vice Chair for Western Europe of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Commission on Environmental Law and former President of the European Environmental Law Association, with both of which he retains strong links, and was co-founder and first Secretary of the UK Environmental Law Association.

He is also a member of several other prestigious environmental bodies, including the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation, the International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law and the International Council of Environmental Law. He is an officer of the American Bar Association's Section on Nature Resources Energy and Environmental Law and Chairman of the CBI's ad hoc working party on environmental liability.

Andrew is editor of Butterworths Environmental Law Handbook 3rd edition, 2001; co-author of Environmental Law in Property Transactions 3rd edition, Tolleys 2009; and author of a number of articles on environmental law topics. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences in the UK and abroad.

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Andrew Waite

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